Quotes About Common

I try to explore, in terms of the life I know best, those things which are common to all cultures.

We had a large common domain, already added by the several States for the common benefit of all; purchase and war might make large additions to this common domain; hence the power over existing and future territories, with the stipulation to admit new States, was conferred.

The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations.

We're working with our neighbors Indonesia and Malaysia to fight terrorism in our own common seas.

Global issues require common responses: Only together we can create the conditions to defeat Daesh and al Qaeda, block channels for terrorist financing, tackle foreign terrorist fighters.

En toda disputa teórica subyace la idea de la existencia de una verdad común; si cada cual tuviera su propia verdad, no habría disputas. (32)

Whether it was their homeland or the new land forced upon them, land held in common gave people strength; it gave them something to fight for. And so—in the eyes of the federal government—that belief was a threat.

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To us, she was like a rare bird that had escaped its cage and was roaming through a courtyard of common chickens.

Uncommon men are everywhere. So much so that the common man has become uncommon.

It's genius simmering, perhaps. I'll let it simmer, and see what comes of it," he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that it wasn't genius, but something far more common. Whatever it was, it simmered to some purpose, for he grew more and more discontented with his desultory life, began to long for some real and earnest work to go at, soul and body, and finally came to the wise conclusion that everyone who loved music was not a composer.

It was a common practice in all descriptions of freighting, not peculiar to oil; in merchandise, grain, everything.

I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

The people are the foundation of the nation. Our only chance for a lasting peace on earth: the release of the strength of the common man.

The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?

Success is the uncommon application of common knowledge

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

The immense success of our life is, I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it.

Ahora los reyes se hacen muy a menudo vulgares.

Nothing could be more obscure and out of reach of the common man than a law founded on precedent....A French lawyer is just a man of learning, but an English or an American one is somewhat like the Egyptian priests, being, as they were, the only interpreters of an occult science.

Every child in the world imagines that its phantasy world is unique to itself. Psychiatry knows that the joys and terrors of private phantasies are a common heritage shared by all mankind. Fears, guilts, terrors, and shames could be interchanged, from one man to the next, and none would notice the difference.

Every child in the world imagines that its phantasy world is unique to itself. Psychiatry knows that the joys and terrors of private phantasies are a common heritage shared by all mankind. Our fears, guilts, terrors and shames could be interchanged, from one man to the next, and none would notice the difference. The therapy department at Combined Hospital had recorded thousands of emotional tapes and boiled them down to one all-inclusive all-terrifying performance in Nightmare Theatre.