A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.
It is not any common earth, Water or wood or air, But Merlin’s Isle of Gramarye That you and I will fare.
The old-time-religion and today's cutting-edge-religion have one thing in common - they're both religion. I want neither.
In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.
I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals. I need superwomen and supermen.
In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.
Capitalism and market forces are very powerful in producing wealth and innovation. But we need to ensure that these forces act in the common interest.
What is the most common investor mistake? Trading - getting in and getting out at all the wrong times, for all the wrong reasons.
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.
Heels I've always loved, but a wedge is perfect, in between glamorous and a common shoe. If going to the store, why wear flip-flops when you can wear wedges?
I know the feeling of being with a person with whom I have nothing in common, and yet there they are, and there we are, together, sharing pieces of our lives.
When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.
When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race.
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.
Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.
Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.
Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.
