Quotes of: Common-good Keyword

We observe that one of the great attributes of discretion is that it can mask ignorance of all the most common and lowly varieties, and Walter Moody was nothing if not excessively discreet.

The Luminaries

We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.

The Library at Night

For once you yourself cease to take pleasure in the common enjoyments of life, you hate the normal man who is so much more fortunate than yourself.

Life and Leisure in Ancient Rome

The only thing cats love more than food is sleep. We have that in common.

Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow have passed magically away and the next time you look it will be bedtime.

Life Among the Savages

Getting victory over a war that you can definitely win is a common thing. Winning a war that is totally based on enemy's terms is undisputable victory.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.

Selected Operas and Plays

... and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but that did not signify. It was censure in common use, and easily given.

Sense and Sensibility

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

The Satanic Verses

One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility.

Prayer for Beginners

Civility awareness and a common foundation of considerate conduct are crutial to our future,

The Power of Civility: Top Experts Reveal the Secrets to Social Capital

Spaniards and Americans are not like Europeans, they are not like Orientals, they have something in common, that is they do not need religion or mysticism not to believe in reality as all the world knows it, not even when they see it.

Picasso

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

The Pleasures of the Damned

God, please help me not be an asshole, is about as common a prayer as I pray in my life.

Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

Pygmalion

It is common to represent a title, but inspiring to represent a purpose.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Casting directors I don't think are the best in Mexico at street casting. Whereas, I think, in New York and in L.A., that's more common; not so in Mexico. So it's up to you as a director in a lot of ways to go out and do that.

Cary Fukunaga

If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted su...

Guido van Rossum

I loved high school. I had the best high school experience of all time. I know that's not a common feeling, but it's the best. You're like, you know, 14 and expressing yourself on a daily basis creatively? That's pretty incredible.

Melonie Diaz

The unfairness of judging others comes in that we judge them on the basis of our own values and beliefs, yet we can never exactly stand on common ground.

Making Success Deliberate

It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.

Lactantius