Quotes of: Common-things Keyword

I put in no claims either for happiness, for gratification, or even for the common comforts of life: yet, surely, I had a right to exist!

The Victim of Prejudice

We must seek together to address the good aspirations of people everywhere, for we are bound together through great commonality.

Voice of Reason

Our common humanity, viewed realistically, can be as much a source of despair as hope.

War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage

Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

The Younger Brother; Or, the Amorous Jilt

I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it's something I'm doing.

Len Goodman

I think I'm the best candidate not just to beat President Obama, but to do what is necessary to get this country going, a conviction conservative who can rally the American public around a common set of values.

Rick Santorum

A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.

Tom Rachman

It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Courage is as common as young men with more sperm in their sacks than sense in their skulls.

The Dinosaur Lords

There is a coarse and ugly temperament and tenor observable in the common unconscious person.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

The medical system serves a very important purpose for many, but our most common lifestyle diseases are better served with use of the Self Care System.

Nina Leavins

Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.

Nick Rahall

Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.

P. C. Cast

Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain.

Paul Gillmor

Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.

Primo Levi

In Europe, it's common to hear about young professionals living with their parents. With the continent's high rents and taxes and its population density, it makes sense.

Rosecrans Baldwin

That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.

Ricky Jay

I know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all genres - the fiction has to be real inside your head.

Sara Sheridan

There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read.

Steve Toltz

Some films clearly seem to divide people. And I do think there's something incredibly exciting about the commonality of us as human beings, which some films are lucky enough to tap into.

Tom Hooper

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney. In that I really like to make people happy.

Thomas Kinkade