Quotes of: Commonly Keyword

Remember that lettuce doesn’t grow on a spruce; and it also doesn’t rhyme with it.

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An new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.

Marge Piercy

Jail is more commonly-suited to those less-commonly able to finance a defense (or to potentially pander the prosecution). The choices for council is either a retained lawyer or, by default, a public defender. In the later of these two, the common tit...

A Father and Future Felon

Of village: it is not called so because its inhabitants are of higher age on average; in fact, there is no connection between the words “village” and “age” whatsoever.

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Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for grante...

The Common Reader

Ho ho ho, tell me why you are not at home' is something Santa Claus could ask you if you stayed in a hotel over Christmas. It is most certainly not the reason why it is called 'hotel', but it will hopefully help you remember that the stress is actual...

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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

Iris Chang

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Jonathan Swift

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.

Gregory Bateson

In times when history still moved slowly, events were few and far between and easily committed to memory. They formed a commonly accepted for thrilling scenes of adventure in private life. Nowadays, history moves at a brisk clip. A historical event, ...

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Wherever you go..., you'll see Heaven and Hell on every side... in . Look for them and you'll soon know them. There on your left, Hell shuffles by, carrying a reluctant, gloomy chicken, his only comrade. There on your right, Heaven spring past, singi...

A Newcomer's Guide to the Afterlife: On the Other Side Known Commonly as "The Little Book"

Who belongs to the community of the commonly protected?

Robert Casey

Language mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language.

Steven Pinker

But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.

Philip Levine

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Herbert Spencer

Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

Ambrose Bierce

This may not be art as art commonly goes; the lack of discipline, of control, would seem to rule it out of that category. And yet Woolrich's lack of control over emotions is a crucial element in his work, not only because it intensifies the fragility...

Francis M. Nevins Jr.

Truth and justice are commonly found in the personality of the paranoid delusional

Russian, Unknown

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

Martin Heidegger