Quotes of: Common-language Keyword

Traveling together into what the poet Adrienne Rich has called ‘the cratered night of female memory,’ they undertook a shared process of self-discovery, working together to probe the possibility of woman’s creative power. Through their explorat...

Life

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

Andrew O'Hagan

In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

Olympia Snowe

Music is a language, you see, a universal language.

Sun Ra

You don't gain more authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't have much authority.

Parenting Pitfalls: Common Parenting Mistakes and Common Sense Solutions

The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most of the people understand the language of sword with greater power than the language of word.

Kedar Joshi

I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.

Wayne Brady

Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the instinct to pull a hand back from a hot surface.

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

Can we reconcile indefinitely these two imperatives: the desire to preserve every individual's special identity and the need for Europeans to be able to communicate with one another all the time and as freely as possible? We cannot leave it to time t...

In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Robert Green Ingersoll

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

Philip Wylie

Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.

Harold Washington

Every dollar that is printed should not represent a debt to private bankers. It should represent an investment potential in the common good, in the common needs of our country.

Cynthia McKinney

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

Angus Wilson

We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere ...

Boy Meets Boy

Music is the great unifier. It doesn’t matter which country you’re in or what language is being spoken, the fans just magically seem to get it. They share a common goal of love and celebration for the purity of magnificence and brilliance that ha...

J.M. Nevins

No one’s fated or doomed to love anyone. The accidents happen, we’re not heroines, they happen in our lives like car crashes, books that change us, neighborhoods we move into and come to love. Tristan and Isolde is scarcely the story, women at le...

The Dream of a Common Language

There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonality is that they all come from animals. And the other commonality is that we wait too long.

Nathan Wolfe

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

Gaston Bachelard

In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not ...

H.L. Mencken

Common goods, no goods.

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