A community, a family, is a group of people who share common stories. The health of any community depends directly on the health of the stories the community embraces.
Teachers and women have one important thing in common; every man and woman that is born into this world is shaped by a teacher or a woman
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.
I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.
Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —
Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.
A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.
Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims. In common parlance, it is the perfect soldier, the 'eternal sentry.' The war ends, the landmine goes on killing.
Not a single illegal immigrant should or need enter the United States, not one. Contrary to the common wisdom, the borders are easy to seal, and controlling entry is hardly totalitarian.
Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.
Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire . . . is one Monarch and one Sword.
Words are sigils that can hide the coded language of your Soul. ☥
I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.
Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.
It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.
It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.
