Quotes About Common

No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot, survivor of that time, that place. —ANNA AKHMATOVA, FROM POEMS OF AKHMATOVA, TRANSLATED BY STANLEY KUNITZ, WITH MAX HAYWARD

Let all of us, though we are separated, remain socialists. Despite everything, let us remain brothers, brothers separated by a quarrel which is cruel but which is, nonetheless, a family quarrel, and whom a common hearth may some day reunite.

Experience is mad when it steps beyond the horizons of our common, that is, our communal sense.

I don't see how Clary is something we have in common,' Simon said, although he did. Nevertheless, this wasn't a conversation he particularly wanted to have with Jace now, or, in fact, ever. Wasn't there some sort of manly code that precluded discussions like this--discussions about feelings ?

Look, I asked you here for a reason. Much as I hate to admit it, vampire, we have something in common. " "Totally awesome hair?" Simon suggested, but his heart wasn't really in it either. Something about the look on Jace's face was making him increasingly uneasy. Simon was caught off guard. "Clary?" "Clary, " Jace said again. "You know: short, redheaded, bad temper.

Yes," said Will, "you two don't seem to have much in common, save for a penchant for demon women and evil.

It was unnecessarily hurtful, and not intended to serve the common good.

Some theologians argue that one kind of grace is better than another, and that some people think they're experiencing "divine" grace when it's actually just "common." To me, that's like bickering about what color God's eyes are. (They're hazel, in case you were wondering.)

The common soldiers did not blame him for his excessive grief. They knew him. They knew his flaws. Indeed, I think they loved him all the more because he was flawed, as they were, and did not hide his passionate, blemished nature.

Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Mañana me esperaban otros caminos. Fáciles, ruidosos, comunes. La fe a medias, las falsas banderas. Me resignaría a ello, ¿qué otra cosa podía hacer? Puesto que la seducción de la nada era inútil, repugnándole al corazón por tantos indicios dejarse persuadir por ella. Y ni la infelicidad, con su amarga miel, me servía ya.

We were fighting for them in wars against people that we had more in common with than with the United States of Banana.

Il problema con i luoghi comuni è che, purtroppo, spesso dicono la verità. In modo grossolano, ma la dicono.

When I think of normality I think of mediocrity

Aos olhos da autoridade - e, talvez, está tenha razão - nada se assemelha melhor ao terrorista que o homem comum.

They brought it to a common saying there that the most acceptable service one could render to God was to put the devil in Hell

sono un uomo comune e quindi mi pare, parlando di me e dei miei, di fare un po' la storia dei milioni e milioni di uomini comuni che, con la loro assennata mediocrità, tengono in piedi la baracca di questo mondo. Quella baracca che gli uomini "eccezionali", gli uomini "fuori dal comune" tentano di scardinare con la loro genialità.

He found himself falsely thinking that one could scarcely begrudge these people the mastery of the world; if they wanted it enough to pay the same price they exacted of others; if they were willing to bring the common suffering and irreparable loss upon themselves as everyone else.

the discovery that ordinary people are smart, smart people are ordinary

Ele é um homem de raciocinio, mas de raciocinio completamente comum; a sua compahia nao me entretem mais do que a leitura de um livro bem escrito

It's now very common to hear people say, "I'm rather offended by that." As if that gives them certain rights. It's simply a whine, just no more than a whine. "I find that offensive": it has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

...a commonwealth ruled by common-sense and common virtue...

If there were no fools,' said Circumbright, 'either among us or among them, we could co-inhabit the earth. there's the flaw in any compromise negotiation - the fact of fools, both among the Teleks and the common men.