#uncommon

You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate - you never stop running. It's not uncommon for a member of the Senate to have a fundraising breakfast, a fundraising lunch and a fundraising dinner, and then when the Senate breaks for the week to go home, more fundraisers. And that's driven by the cost of campaigning. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#breaks #campaigning #campaigns #cost #dinner

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#common man #construction #doctor #engineer #general

Hale!' Kat cried, but the boy only stared at her. 'Fine,' she conceded. 'I love your boat.' 'Ship.' 'Ship ... Your ship is beautiful. ↗

— Ally Carter

#humor #uncommon #beauty

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world. ↗

— Jane Austen

#being #called #charming #diffidence #girl

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin! ↗

— Joseph Addison

#chosen #country #curse #greatness #heaven

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. ↗

— Aristotle

#appearance #apprehensive #believing #consider #devotion

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life. ↗

— Dawn French

#beautiful #father #his #i #life

It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life. ↗

— Mary Garden

#because #being #child #children #his way

Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense. ↗

— Charles Perrault

#birth #common good #disputed #fairy #form