Quotes of: Common-good Keyword

Too many politicians are shifting the critical themes of our national conversations from a 'big ideas' American Brand Platform to narrowly focused, polarizing sound bites that put party philosophy before what used to be heralded as the common good. T...

Alan Siegel

There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.

Rachel Cusk

My parents broke up when I was six. Before, I was a very active, naughty child, but after my father left me, I stopped talking. I became very good at hiding my emotions. I felt so ashamed of telling others that I didn't have a father, because that wa...

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

They're lots of good Americans here in New York who have common sense and who believe in free markets and free people and limited government under our Constitution. Those are the principles I've always stood for. I know they're right, and that's what...

Wendy E. Long

Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Nothing brings you together like a common enemy.

Infinite Jest

Common sense is only irritating in other people

Peccadillo: A Katla Novel

Beauty is intellectually confusing; it sabotages common sense.

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

The best partnerships aren't dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, desire, and no small amount of passion.

Sarah MacLean

I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings

The Dream of a Common Language

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

Cats cant speak, that's common sense. -Yoruichi

Tite Kubo

Our uniqueness is what makes us common. It is the same fact that we are unique that we as individuals have in common.

Morena Baloyi

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

Margaret Deland

Common sense is like deodorant. People that need it most don't use it.

Mackenzie Morrison

Never let your emotions get so high that they flood your common sense.

Steve Cross crossbytes

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.

Pat Conroy

The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.

Mo Ibrahim

The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.

Timothy Noah

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Jean Henri Fabre

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

Charles Baudelaire