Quotes About Common

They had become more like people who'd been through a war together, comrades with little in common but the battle itself

All our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common.

We all know--or at least we are told continually--that we are a divided people. And we know there's a degree of truth in it. We have too often allowed our differences to prevail among us. We have too often allowed ambitious men to play off those differences for political gain. We have too often retreated behind our differences when no one really tried to lead us beyond them. But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

If you inquire what the people are like here,I must answer, "The same as everywhere!"

I live a normal life.

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.

Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?

In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.

When I think of normality I think of mediocrity

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

I have been a liar all my life, you see. It's not uncommon in our family." "They're doing just as I asked them to. As we Sinclairs always do. Pretending. Lying. Trying to have a good time.

If you think of doing something in New York City, you can be certain that at least two thousand other people have the same thought. And of the two thousand who do, about one thousand will be standing in line waiting to do it.

He only stopped once, to pick her some great blue violets. She thanked him with real pleasure. In the company of this common man the world was beautiful and direct. For the first time she felt the influence of spring. His arm swept the horizon gracefully; violets, like other things, existed in great profusion there; would she like to see them? 'Ma buoni uomini.' He bowed. Certainly. Good men first, violets afterwards.

The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.

Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom, golden in the green grass, This life can be. Common as a dandelion-blossom, beautiful in the clean grass, not beautiful Because common, beautiful because beautiful, Noble because common, because free.

De pronto ha advertido que la historia de México y su historia personal tienen en común un aspecto en el que nunca había reparado: ambas son una larga galería de fantasmas.

Let us hope our weapons are never needed -- but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny.

I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.

Philosophy is nothing but common sense in a dress suit.

The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie has, historically, played a most revolutionary role.