Common Quotes

• The earth's warmth under me, as I stretch out at night, is astonishing. It is like the warmth of another body that has absorbed the sun all day and now gives out again its store of heat. It is softer, darker than I could ever have believed, and when I take a handful of it and smell its extraordinary odors, I know suddenly what it is I am composed of, as if the energy that is in this fistful of black soil had suddenly opened, between my body and it, as between it and the green stalks, some corridor along which our common being flowed.

  

  David Malouf
  • Green
  • Extraordinary
  • Again

• Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Happy
  • Death
  • Strange

• I think the common elements first are that, basically, we are entering markets or in markets that are deregulating or have recently deregulated, and so they have become competitive, moving from monopoly franchise-type businesses to competitive, market-oriented businesses.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Thinking
  • Moving
  • Competition

• I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.

  

  Will Self
  • Psychology
  • Term
  • Anarchist

• It should stimulate the mind as well as the appetite. The well made cocktail is one of the most gracious of drinks. It pleases the senses. The shared delight of those who partake in common of this refreshing nectar breaks the ice of formal reserve. Taut nerves relax, taut muscles relax, tired eyes brighten, tongues loosen, friendships deepen, the whole world becomes a better place in which to live.

  

  David A. Embury
  • World
  • Mind
  • Eye

• In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain.

  

  Mike Crapo
  • Independence
  • Britain
  • January

• It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Nations
  • England
  • Tricks

• Let's listen to the people and find common ground to remove barriers to job creation.

  

  Peter Roskam
  • Job
  • Common
  • Barriers

• If skills sold truth be told I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli Truthfully I want to rhyme like Common Sense (But I did five Mil) I ain't been rhyming like Common since.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Truth
  • Truth Is
  • Rhyme

• On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Job
  • Team
  • Goal

• And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the book's outside, who ne'er look'd within?

  

  William Cowper
  • Sin
  • Kissing
  • Pretence

• I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid without being gender dysphoric. This phenomenon may be culturally significant, but it has only a little bit in common with the people who feel they can have no authentic self in their birth gender.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • May
  • College

• The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Quality
  • Moral
  • Elegance

• It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.

  

  Eugenie Clark
  • Growing
  • Common
  • Chose

• The thing I hear about a lot is when people over-sharpen their pencil with a single-blade pocket-sharpener and then when they put the pencil to the page, their tip breaks and pencil points always break irregularly. It always gets all jagged and you have to refresh the point. That's a common complaint.

  

  David Rees
  • People
  • Break
  • Pencils

• The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Hurt
  • Common
  • Duties

• Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the common light which the sun sends into all our windows, which he pours freely, impartially over hill and valley, which kindles daily the eastern and western sky; and so the common lights of reason, and conscience, and love, are of more worth and dignity than the rare endowments which give celebrity to a few.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Art
  • Giving
  • Window

• Islam undoubtedly deserves respect. It has some things in common with Christianity, such as Abraham as a common progenitor, and the belief in only one God.

  

  Walter Kasper
  • God
  • Belief
  • Christianity

• The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no space for the narratives of his fellow-evangelists; the enumeration of a third is given without any regard to the events reported by his predecessors; lastly, among several appearances recounted by various narrators, each claims to be the last, and yet has nothing in common with the others. Hence nothing but wilful blindness can prevent the perception that no one of the narrators knew and presupposed what another records.

  

  David Friedrich Strauss
  • Time
  • Space
  • Rest

• The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common pop(p)y seed. If the sand is too coarse the mortar will be short or brittle . . . If the sand is too fine the cement will shrink and crack after it has been used.

  

  Canvass White
  • Quality
  • Engineering
  • Fine

• This is a private-public partnership in an area of common concern and benefit. It brings so many talents and resources to the table.

  

  Peter Hobson
  • Resources
  • Concern
  • Area

• I have found that great people do have in common an immense belief in themselves and in their mission. They also have great determination as well as an ability to work hard. At the crucial moment of decision, they draw on their accumulated wisdom. Above all, they have integrity.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Belief
  • Mission
  • Immense

• Polygamy was not a problem in the '80s. I do not remember one single woman in Baghdad who was the second or third wife. Now it's a very common story. Sometimes two wives living with a man in a 5 by 10 foot room. It's a very miserable economic situation.

  

  Yanar Mohammed
  • Men
  • Remember
  • Single

• What we want is another sample of life, which is not on our tree of life at all. All life that we've studied so far on Earth belongs to the same tree. We share genes with mushrooms and oak trees and fish and bacteria that live in volcanic vents and so on that it's all the same life descended from a common origin. What we want is a second tree of life. We want alien life, alien not necessarily in the sense of having come from space, but alien in the sense of belonging to a different tree altogether. That is what we're looking for, "life 2.0."

  

  Paul Davies
  • Different
  • Earth
  • Tree

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