The internet is a wild land with its own games, languages and gestures through which we are starting to share common feelings.
In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
In politics, they found there were not enough females in the House of Commons, so they came up with the idea of shortlists having to have women on them.
There are some common problems in the Balkans in the settlement of which Bulgaria should also participate.
Even the highest branches cannot deny that they have roots in a common bond.
Success is not for everyone, but if everyone had a phobia of failure, success was going to be a common thing.
The common intuition is that e-books should be cheap because they aren't physical - no printing, no shipping.
Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three.
We don't need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.
There is one common thing in superstars - enthusiasm and humility towards their work. Off sets, they are big stars for others, and they carry themselves the way they want to. When they are working, they are not stars.
Each of my Shakespeare pieces is different to the other, but each espouses a set of philosophies common to all my theatre work.
This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.
I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom.
My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children d...
Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it to be noticed for the way you turn a phrase. You have a very important job--one of the most important. Your job is to le...
When I worked in a second-hand bookshop — so easily pictured, if you don't work in one, as a kind of paradise where charming old gentlemen browse eternally among calf-bound folios — the thing that chiefly struck me was the rarity of really bookis...
The quality common to the three experiences... is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. I call it Joy, which is here a technical term and must be sharply distinguished both from Happiness and Pleasu...
Pride," observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, "is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it it very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that ...
As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with g...
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!
