Quotes of: Common-language Keyword

I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.

Freida Pinto

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Henry David Thoreau

People think I have the benefit of a public school education. I have this suave and debonair label, but really, I'm as common as muck.

Charles Dance

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

Aldo Leopold

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

Nora Roberts

All great pitches have a few things in common: the founder/team is wicked smart, the idea is big and a breakthrough, and the market is potentially enormous.

Scott Weiss

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

Baruch Spinoza

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

Ernest Hemingway

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Jane Addams

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

Jimmy Carter

I've said before that the common perception that all good actors should be good liars is exactly the opposite; only bad actors lie when they act.

Rob Lowe

Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.

Timothy Noah

At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.

Li Peng

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Jimmy Carter

From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a mathematical foundation for the 'Big Bang,' people of faith have played a key role in advanci...

Kenneth R. Miller

Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.

Ramana Maharshi

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

Russel Honore

What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think.

Denis Thatcher

The constitution is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other.

Pope Theodoros II

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

Saint Augustine

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

David Byrne