Uncommon valor was a common virtue.
Chester W. Nimitz
VirtueCommonUncommonValor
Surprisingly few outsiders know about the Cuckmere Valley, and it is not uncommon for people to confuse Alfriston with Alfreton in the Derbyshire Peak District.
David Hewson
PeopleKnowValleyPeakUncommon
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Booker T. Washington
ExcellenceWayCommonUncommonThing
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
Charles Dickens
PeopleRiseTakeMayAboveUncommon
Whenever I use an uncommon word, I try to indicate its meaning within the text.
Melanie Rawn
MeaningTryWithinUncommonText
It's not uncommon for men to show up at my book signings or to send me emails with their thoughts about my books. I've also heard from a number of female readers who were introduced to my works by men in their lives.
Sylvia Day
MenMeThoughtsBookUpUncommon
It's not uncommon in South Korea for a building to not have a women's bathroom.
Yi So-Yeon
WomenBuildingBathroomUncommon
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
John Masefield
PoetryCommon SenseSenseUncommon
Publishing can be a cliquish and incestuous business; it is not uncommon for writers from the same agencies and publishers to review each other.
Petina Gappah
BusinessReviewSameUncommonOther
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
Walter Bagehot
ManOpinionsCommonUncommonGeneral
Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
Patrick O'Brian
FriendshipReasonUncommonLiking
In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.
Stephen King
PeopleWindSmallScentUncommon
It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.
Norman Ralph Augustine
AchieveHighExpensiveCostUncommon
On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.
Nancy Gibbs
DayValueHeroismNormalUncommon
LOL is rarely OL, or even really L. A real out-loud laugh - not the forced social variety, which is closer to barking than laughing - is uncommon among adults.
Mary Roach
LaughRealVarietySocialUncommon
It's not uncommon to have chaotic writers' rooms.
Richard LaGravenese
UncommonRoomsChaoticWriters
Humanity hungers for the uncommon.
Michael Leunig
HumanityUncommon
In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.
Niklaus Wirth
WorldComputersForeverUncommon
The 12-hour workday is not uncommon to anyone anymore.
Jordana Spiro
UncommonAnymoreAnyone
Common sense is very uncommon.
Horace Greeley
Common SenseCommonSenseUncommon
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