Quotes of: Common-good Keyword

I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place.

Charles Kennedy

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Orison Swett Marden

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Adam Smith

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Anton Chekhov

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

Booker T. Washington

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

Paul Simon

My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

Dolly Parton

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I like being on camera, performing, seeing what people have in common.

Eddie Huang

I felt like a misfit at school, and I think that's quite common.

Clare Balding

A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.

Gerhard Schroder

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

I'm marrying my common-law wife, Beth, the Christian way, with a preacher and all that.

Duane Chapman

Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.

David R. Ellis

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

John Taylor Gatto

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

W. Somerset Maugham

Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.

Dylan McDermott

You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.

Eric Zorn

I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging.

Aubrey de Grey

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

Joe Biden