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

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.

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor admired his uncommon virtue and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way you will command the attention of the world.

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

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

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.

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