Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.
One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them.
The most confounding thing of all is that we still haven't identified the cause of 20% to 30% of adult common colds.
In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
A common and highly effective method for challenging a statement is to compare it to the previous statements of the witness for consistency and to compare it with the physical evidence.
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
Common human experience alone is no guarantee with which we can build a science of psychology.
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.
I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.
You might think that, by now, people would have become accustomed to the idea of natural catastrophes. We live on a planet that is still cooling and which has fissures and faults in its crust; this much is accepted even by those who think that the gl...
There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was understood that one of society's main tasks was matchmaking. People with lifelong friendships and ties to local...
Health is normal. The human body is a self-repairing, self-defending, self-healing marvel. Disease is relatively difficult to induce, considering the body's powerful immune system. However, this complicated and delicate machinery can be damaged if fe...
At twenty years old, Michael had vague plans to make changes in his life, but turning blue whilst stood in a walk-in bath in an old people's home wasn't one of them. Usually boys of his age might consider changes along the lines of smoking less grass...
Uncommon success is found on the spiritual plane; you can't get there through common convention or following others. Hard work is not enough; many work slavishly-hard for little reward. Intelligence is insufficient; how many educated and brilliant pe...
It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern soc...
Why is it so hard to get people to study the Scriptures? Common sense tells us what revelation commands: 'Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God'--'Search the Scriptures'--'Be ready to give to every one a reason of the hope that is in...
We habitually erect a barrier called blame that keeps us from communicating genuinely with others, and we fortify it with our concepts of who's right and who's wrong. We do that with the people who are closest to us and we do it with political system...
