Quotes About Common

This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.

Perforated eardrums were quite common16, too; but, as Haldane reassuringly noted in one of his essays, 'the drum generally heals up; and if a hole remains in it, although one is somewhat deaf, one can blow tobacco smoke out of the ear in question, which is a social accomplishment.

that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.

untimely death is a common but really quite inane expression. When ever was a death timely?

They had much in common. Both were spoiled, driven, self-centred, quarrelsome, jealous, mistrustful and ever unhappy.

However senior or accomplished, they were not allowed into the college's senior common room but instead had to take their meals in a more utilitarian chamber

Now the best thinking is that the appendix serves as a reservoir for gut bacteria. About one person in every sixteen in the developed world will suffer appendicitis at some point, enough to make it the most common cause of emergency surgery. Without surgery, many appendicitis victims would die.

That's really what history mostly is, masses of people doing ordinary things.

All these different types of plastics have one thing in common: They contain carbon. Carbon, it turns out, is useful in creating all sorts of different materials because it bonds easily with a wide variety of different elements; in the case of plastics, it's usually clustered with hydrogen and oxygen.

The manner in which Epictetus , Montaigne , and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.

Reason never wholly overcomes imagination, while the contrary is quite common.

They say that eclipses are portents of disaster, because disasters are so common, and misfortune occurs often enough for these forecasts to be right, whereas if they said that eclipses were portents of good fortune they would often be wrong.

The most common trigger, worldwide, that tripped an angry mob into violence was the sound of breaking glass.

There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure. It is, after all, what everyone does all the time.

Palavra de honra, não existe nada no mundo tão fácil de explicar como o fracasso... É, afinal de contas, o que todo mundo alcança o tempo inteiro.

El denominador común de una buena conversación es la curiosidad auténtica.

historians will say 'We have a few documents to show how the common people lived at this time. Records lead us to believe that a majority were killed. But there were glorious men.

Forgive us, O Lord, we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man, Of the men and women who shut the door and sit by the fire; Who fear the blessing of God, the loneliness of the night of God, the surrender required, the deprivation inflicted; Who fear the injustice of men less than the justice of God; Who fear the hand at the window, the fire in the thatch, the fist in the tavern, the push into the canal, Less than we fear the love of God.

She was what an aristocrat should be, porcelain and silk, unreachable, gracious, untainted by the dust of all this common death.

Give them wisdom and devotion in the ordering of their common life, that each may be to the other a strength in need, a counselor in perplexity, a comfort in sorrow, and a companion in joy.

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

Mary adored her mother with a hopeless affection, like an unrequited crush. She understood this feeling was common in middle children, as Mary was, but there was also a story.

Common folk suffer when kingdoms rise, Common folk suffer when kingdoms fall.

Metaphors, like perceptions, are drawn from common experiences.