Quotes of: Common-good Keyword

But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared.

Laurie Lee

One common desire that every human being has is to love and be loved. At the end of our lives, it's how we measure our lives.

Denise Di Novi

You go to New York or L.A., and every waiter wants to be a writer, director or actor. But there's a common thread: everybody wants to do it because they love it.

Gillian Alexy

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

Friedrich List

It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.

Frederick Pollock

The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.

Heraclitus

Q: What do Jesus and Nicole Brown Simpson have in common? A: They were both killed by the Joooooooose.

Helen Thomas

There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

Jane Austen

It is quite wrong for party conferences to be used as an excuse for the Commons not to sit. Conferences could be held at weekends.

John Bercow

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

John Berger

Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.

Juliette Binoche

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

James F. Cooper

I think the reason why 'Red Eye' is popular is because we question the common assumptions that you find elsewhere.

Greg Gutfeld

We're working with our neighbors Indonesia and Malaysia to fight terrorism in our own common seas.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.

George P. Shultz

The only people you and I are likely to know in common are people in the news - politicians, journalists and celebrities.

Helen Fisher

Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.

Joni Mitchell

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.

Jean Racine

All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

John Locke

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

Oscar Arias Sanchez