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Quotes About Common

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.
~ Franz Kafka
Dear Kitty, Nothing special going on here.
~ Anne Frank
fancy themselves 'deprived' of luxuries and peace and quiet which in fact were never common to any people anywhere at all.
~ Anne Rice
Summer Hawthorne was simply more trouble than she was worth. At least as far as anyone with any sense would realize. Unfortunately, Taka's common sense seemed to have deserted him in the last few days.
~ Anne Stuart
When you get your author's photo taken, be sure not to touch your face." "Why would I do that?" "It's a mystery, but quite common. You must have seen this one." Oscar struck a brooding pose, his fist beneath his chin. "For the author whose brain is too heavy to stay up on its own.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Regrets were like assholes; everyone had one. Hammer
~ Shayla Black
The ordinary can be like medicine.
~ Sherman Alexie
The difference between people isn't in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas, and from the common people--life itself, warmth. You feel their hates and loves.
~ D. H. Lawrence
I have a remarkably normal life.
~ Michael J. Fox
My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.
~ Paul Simon
It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.
~ Samuel Johnson
I lead a very boring, normal life.
~ Stockard Channing
I lead my life as normal.
~ Jonathan King
Sociopath" and "psycho" were two of the most common field diagnoses for my look and expression. I heard it all the time: "I've read about people like you. They have no expression because they have no feeling. Some of the worst murderers in history were sociopaths.
~ John Elder Robison
A los asesinos les encanta lo corriente —pensó—. Lo corriente los oculta. Lo corriente es seguro. Lo corriente esconde toda esa maldad mejor que cualquier otra clase de velo.»
~ John Katzenbach
Do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: we know her woof, her texture; she is given in the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, conquer all mysteries by rule and line, empty the haunted air, and gnome mine unweave a rainbow.
~ John Keats
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
~ John Locke
From all which it is evident, that though the things of nature are given in common, yet man, by being master of himself, and " proprietor of his own person, and the actions or labour of it, had still in himself the great foundation of property;" and that which made up the greater part of what he applied to the support or comfort of his being, when invention and arts had improved the conveniencies of life, was perfectly his own, and did not belong in common to others.
~ John Locke
and the ore I have digged in any place, where I have a right to them in common with others
~ John Locke
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
~ John Masefield
I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
~ John McLaughlin
Brooklyn and Jersey have a lot in common. People make fun of both and those who know better let them.
~ John McNerney
Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
For God's sake, is there no plain man?
~ Elizabeth Bowen