Quotes About Common

He wondered if the real world was that one in which men fought for policies and principles and died or lived gloriously - or more often miserably - for the sake of an abstract word like patriotism or independence, or if reality belonged to the humble people and the common land.

The commonplace miracle: that so many common miracles take place.

The process of secularisation arises not from the loss of faith but from the loss of social interest in the world of faith. It begins the moment men feel that religion is irrelevant to the common way of life and that society as such has nothing to do with the truths of faith.

Foraging Oregon covers plants that can be used primarily for food and are common in Oregon

Demons!' someone shouted in the common speech. 'Sorcerers! Blasphemers!' Han looked up in surprise to see the black-robed priest charging down the steps, swinging the broom over his head like a weapon, his face contorted with rage.

It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human and recoignizable.

Significant Form" is the one quality common to all works of visual art.

It is necessary to understand that war is common, strife is customary, and all things happen because of strife and necessity.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Do but consider for a moment that the regimen to which children are subject, is hourly telling upon them to their lifelong injury or benefit; and that there are twenty ways of going wrong to one way of going right; and you will get some idea of the enormous mischief that is almost everywhere inflicted by the thoughtless, haphazard system in common use.

The facts are that an essential difference exists between man and beast. Human nature is sui generis; it has its own character and attributes. If this be true, then the common origin of all men is a necessity;

What all tendencies, branches and splinters of anarchism—and there are quite a few—have in common is their opposition to every form of hierarchy and inequality. It

There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known. Is it not wonderful, then, that we should be so sensitive upon the discovery of a fault which must of necessity be common to all, and that in its highest degree?

Enjoy your conversation." Maybe they will. They both hate me. That gives them something in common.

I wrench my mouth free and scream, but screams in Faerie are like bird-song, too common to attract much attention.

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

One of the biggest and most common mistakes a woman makes is to substitute activity for God for a relationship with Him.

I glory in the emotionally commonplace

I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.

Very well," Beatrix said reluctantly. "But I warn you, they may be resistant to the match." "I'm resistant to the match," Christopher informed her. "At least we'll have that in common.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

Do something active that's fun. On tour with Kanye and Common, we would have basketball games on a court in every city we went to. With Alicia Keys, we would mountain-bike across Vancouver Island. With Lady Gaga, we would explore all the cool neighborhoods.

We can't disrespect, by way discounting or misunderstanding our different sticking points, the beliefs of the various groups comprising the tea party movement, but we all have more in common with each other than we do with factions on the Left: the communists, the socialists, the say-they're-anarchists-but-are-actually-socialists.

Vast sections of the world's population are inspired by the same desires and live for common interests that bind them together far more than they separate them.