Quotes About Common

Mediocritatea este plaga civilizatiei. Dar mediocritatea il face atat de comun, incat devine iesit din comun.

We're as common as rain." And she was right: to each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread, we were just a family. In a family, even exaggerations make perfect sense; they are always logical exaggerations, nothing more.

Aren't eccentricities fairly common among overachievers.

Add doom to the list, then. Especially in families, doom is "altogether common." Sorrow floats; love, too; and—in the long run—doom. It floats, too.

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 gnomèd mine— Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.

As marble was there lavish, to the vast Of one fair palace, that far far surpass'd, Even for common bulk, those olden three, Memphis, and Babylon, and Nineveh.

It's here, I think, that science, history, and art have something in common: they all depend on metaphor, on the recognition of patterns, on the realization that something is like something else.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune.

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.

One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected.

A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

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

Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both the parties who partake in it.

Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's wrongs his own.

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

We call on all members of America's religious communities, as a testament of our common faith, to join Faithful Security, and to take action immediately to break faith with nuclear weapons.

Those of different faiths and no faith should seek areas of common agreement based on their different perspectives.

S(he) (was) just ano(the)r (one).

130. We cannot read the darkness. We cannot read it. It is a form of madness, albeit a common one, that we try.