A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
Walter Bagehot

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

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
Samuel Butler

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Common sense is very uncommon.
Horace Greeley

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph Addison

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Booker T. Washington

In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions.
Joe Bob Briggs

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.
Niklaus Wirth

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

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
Dee Hock

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.
Elihu Root

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

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

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

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
Ambrose Bierce

Of the Marines on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
Chester W. Nimitz

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

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
John Masefield

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
Orison Swett Marden