Quotes of: Common-good Keyword

Unhealthy behavior is actually common among doctors, who tend to know a lot about medicine but very little about health.

Snooze: A Story of Awakening

Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.

Sex & character

Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.

Sarah Canary

Quitters don’t gain what they have started working on; waiters don’t start what they could have gained. What is common there is failure.

Shaping the dream

A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.

The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

Eventually, there's certain limit in telling bare fact through words. It ain't about diction constraints, but common ability to understand.

Master of Stupidity

People who are ordinarily understood to dislike each other or at least to be indifferent toward each other discover that they have much in common.

The Moviegoer

If you are afraid to fail, your successes will be few, common, and unmemorable.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.

Mere Christianity

Sometimes we need to look at everything going wrong in our lives and admit to ourselves, "I am the only common denominator here.

Single Dad Laughing

I got excited when I saw a midget, and then disappointed when I realized it was just a child. Those things are so common.

Sleepwalking is restercise

If man traveled as a centipede does, rather than with two self-interested steps at a time, more common ground would get covered.

Sleepwalking is restercise

Enthusiasm is that certain something that makes us stand out, pulls us out of the mediocre common places, and turns us into powerful influencers.

Selling Simplified

The church and the scientific community are fighting at times a common enemy: the truth religion cannot deny and the positivist materialist scientist is unable to explain.

A Time of Change

They both have in common their conviction that they are still learning, still growing, when in fact they have long ago lost that ability.

Reached

All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.

The Road

We must love all of creation, not only what is common. A god may have the head of an elephant, after all.

A Thousand Perfect Things

I put in no claims either for happiness, for gratification, or even for the common comforts of life: yet, surely, I had a right to exist!

The Victim of Prejudice

Our common humanity, viewed realistically, can be as much a source of despair as hope.

War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage

Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

The Younger Brother; Or, the Amorous Jilt

I think I'm the best candidate not just to beat President Obama, but to do what is necessary to get this country going, a conviction conservative who can rally the American public around a common set of values.

Rick Santorum