Common Quotes
Nearness to God is common to us all, Because we're all created and sustained by God, But only the authentically noble Possess and live that nearness That's a constant upswelling passion of love.
Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.
Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors. A nation - from the Latin word meaning to be born - can have no other meaning.
It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind.
London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.
These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.
Differences, we know, are never so effectually laid asleep as by some common calamity; an enemy unites all to whom he threatens danger.
Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.
It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other.
The technology in making games and in making anime is really similar. There are common concepts.
I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.
However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.
Dorian Yates and I have nothing in common, physically speaking. He's a Volkswagen; I'm a Porsche.
There is one thing the power of God and the power of Satan have in common: Neither can influence us unless we allow them to.
And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.
The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them.
The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.
The meanest flowret of the vale, / The simplest note that swells the gale, / The common sun, the air, and skies, / To him are opening paradise.
Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.
I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.
Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.
Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.
Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.
When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.
when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.
In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.
There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.
President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.
Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, 'It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun.'
The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the torn petals strew the garden plot; And there's but common greenness after that.
We all live in a small unique world, that's why we need at least one sole common language.
If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.
I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.