Quotes of: Common-values Keyword

Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains.

Killosophy

For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

A Room of One's Own

for she could never think of anything to say to Clarissa, though she liked her. She had lots of fine qualities; but they had nothing in common - she and Clarissa.

Mrs. Dalloway

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

Marva Collins' Way: Updated

An imperfect human heart, perfectly shattered, was her conclusion. A condition so common as to be virtually universal, rendering issues of right and wrong almost incidental.

Nobody's Fool

We observe that one of the great attributes of discretion is that it can mask ignorance of all the most common and lowly varieties, and Walter Moody was nothing if not excessively discreet.

The Luminaries

We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.

The Library at Night

For once you yourself cease to take pleasure in the common enjoyments of life, you hate the normal man who is so much more fortunate than yourself.

Life and Leisure in Ancient Rome

The only thing cats love more than food is sleep. We have that in common.

Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow have passed magically away and the next time you look it will be bedtime.

Life Among the Savages

Getting victory over a war that you can definitely win is a common thing. Winning a war that is totally based on enemy's terms is undisputable victory.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.

Selected Operas and Plays

... and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but that did not signify. It was censure in common use, and easily given.

Sense and Sensibility

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

The Satanic Verses

One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility.

Prayer for Beginners

Civility awareness and a common foundation of considerate conduct are crutial to our future,

The Power of Civility: Top Experts Reveal the Secrets to Social Capital

Spaniards and Americans are not like Europeans, they are not like Orientals, they have something in common, that is they do not need religion or mysticism not to believe in reality as all the world knows it, not even when they see it.

Picasso

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

The Pleasures of the Damned

In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

God, please help me not be an asshole, is about as common a prayer as I pray in my life.

Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

Pygmalion