Quotes of: Common-good Keyword

A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.

Tom Rachman

It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Courage is as common as young men with more sperm in their sacks than sense in their skulls.

The Dinosaur Lords

There is a coarse and ugly temperament and tenor observable in the common unconscious person.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

The medical system serves a very important purpose for many, but our most common lifestyle diseases are better served with use of the Self Care System.

Nina Leavins

Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.

Nick Rahall

This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.

Omar Sharif

Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.

P. C. Cast

Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain.

Paul Gillmor

Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.

Primo Levi

In Europe, it's common to hear about young professionals living with their parents. With the continent's high rents and taxes and its population density, it makes sense.

Rosecrans Baldwin

That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.

Ricky Jay

It is ashamed that history isolates things that are common to a large populace, but families don’t disperse generational history to prevent their descendants from falling in the same traps as they had.

Stephen and Tiffany Domena

Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.

Stephen King

I know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all genres - the fiction has to be real inside your head.

Sara Sheridan

There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read.

Steve Toltz

Some films clearly seem to divide people. And I do think there's something incredibly exciting about the commonality of us as human beings, which some films are lucky enough to tap into.

Tom Hooper

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney. In that I really like to make people happy.

Thomas Kinkade

Every musician writes about past relationships. And other than that, I can promise you, I have very little in common with Taylor Swift.

Tom Odell

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.

Terry Pratchett

Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows.

Thomas Sydenham