Quotes About Common

Is your division of Understanding into Greater and Lesser common to all Sufis? Nothing which is put into words is common to all Sufis.

O my God, Ludovici thought. Love and rebellion. A potent mixture. Enough to blind him to common sense.

It is important to grasp that boredom is one of the most common - and undesirable - consequences of 'unicameralism'. Boredom is a feeling of being 'dead inside'; that is to say, loss of contact with our instincts and feelings.

Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.

It is a pity that kindness isn't more common," said Frank with a little difficulty. "There is kindness in German hearts, too, but it is hidden from view because kindness has become a crime.

A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.

Some of the policy measures that are important are politically difficult if taken independent of actions by others in support of common goals. Joint actions are therefore needed, and establishing a G-11 with an effective role for the IMF provides the viable way forward.

I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it's not obvious or even conscious on the artists' part.

There is a lot that horses and art share in common. I have found that most horse people are art lovers, and vice versa.

Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice.

I take it you don't ride often in town?" "No, I travel by foot or hackney." "But your brother…" Kathleen began, thinking of Devon's assured horsemanship. "He rides every morning. A big dapple gray that's as mean as the devil if it goes one day without hard exercise." A pause. "They have that in common.

How would you describe Owen and Irene's relationship?" "Average," he said. "Could you elaborate?" "They were hardly star-crossed lovers. I suspect they made decent-enough roommates and they had a few things in common." "Like what?" "Lack of ambition. And a somewhat modest way of life.

Girls like her are a dime a dozen, and I happen to have a pocket full of dimes.

Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can't help but like him a little.

Stupid's everywhere, every day.

But it should be Soon. Already I defend hotly Certain of our indefensible faults, Resent being reminded; already in my mind Our language becomes freighted with a richness No common tongue could offer, while the mountains Are like nowhere on earth, and the wide rivers.

We are all flawed, complicated, wounded dreamers; we have more in common with one another than we don't. Sometimes making the world a better place just involves creating space for the people who are already in it.

Me being misunderstood is common, a little too common but it is what it is.

Most soulish believers assume an attitude of self-righteousness, though often it is scarcely detectable. They hold tenaciously to their minute opinions we ought to lay aside the small differences and pursue the common objective.

It's an offense of majesty to love Olympic gods like common mortals. Shouldn't they be just worshiped?

Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?

And sometimes there is relief, sometimes there is new inner energy, and one stands up after it; till at last, someday, one perhaps doesn't stand up any more, que soit, but that is nothing extraordinary, and I repeat, in my opinion, such is the common.

I am writing to Russell at the same time. I think we know, don't we, that the English, the Yankees, have this much in common with the Dutch, that their charity…is very Christian. Now, the rest of us not being very good Christians…That's what I can't put out of my head writing again like this.

Political advice is a bit like your average Christmas fruitcake: something everyone gives and no one wants.