Common Quotes - Page 31

• 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

  Eye, Tired, Ice

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• Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense;
  Truth is apt to be neither.

  Christmas Humphreys

  Common Sense, Truth Is, Our Lives

  Christmas Humphreys (2003). “Teach Yourself Zen”, Teach Yourself

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• A newspaper is an adviser who does not require to be sought, but who comes of his own accord, and talks to you briefly every day of the common wealth, without distracting you from your private affairs.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Doe, Wealth, Affair

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• We cannot win in team situations or in relationships by ourselves. It is like trying to pick up a pencil with only one finger...Even if that one finger is extremely strong, it will prove almost impossible to pick up that pencil unless you use your other fingers or some other part of your hand. Teamwork is a bit like using all of your fingers. Each one is unique and contributes something different, but they unite in pursuit of a common goal.

  Terry Orlick

  Teamwork, Strong, Unique

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• No matter who weaves in and out of your life, regardless of the quality of those deep friendships and familyships, I'm the only common denominator at this point who's been with me the whole time. And there's this sense of trying to make sense of that ultimate solitude. It's not a negative or even a positive. It's just a fact.

  Feist

  Solitude, Trying, Quality

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• A friend to me has no race, no class and belongs to no minority. My friendships were formed out of affection, mutual respect and a feeling of having something strong in common. These are eternal values that cannot be racially classified. This is the way I look at race.

  Frank Sinatra

  Strong, Race, Class

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• May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

  Albert Einstein

  War, People, Common Sense

  Albert Einstein (2007). “The World As I See It”, p.66, Book Tree

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• There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Lines, Campaigns

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.131, Princeton University Press

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• Plain experience and common sense inform us that no abstract Person can have made us as we are without also wishing to delete us and start over (Gen. 8:21; Zeph. 1:2). Therefore, the existence of cruel and arbitrary nature, together with the universality of human sin, prevents us from beginning the theological enterprise with any concept of God that is distinct from revelation. All theologies of a cosmic harmonic principle shipwreck on the truths of tragedy, catastrophe, and injustice.

  Paul F. M. Zahl

  Common Sense, Starting Over, Together

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• I think being on a set where people arent being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  Thinking, People, Levels

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• The most common trait I have found in all successful people is that they have conquered the temptation to give up.

  Peter Lowe

  Giving Up, Successful, People

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• Among environmentalists sharing two or three beers, the notion is quite common that if only some calamity could wipe out the entire human race, other species might once again have a chance.

  Richard Conniff

  Beer, Race, Two

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• Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldnt be only for the rich.

  Tony Fernandes

  Men, Goal, Aviation

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• We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them; but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Eye, Class, Notes

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• The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would be difficult for imagination to exceed. Scorn, derision, insult, menace - the handcuff, the last - the tearing away of children from parents, of husbands from wives - the weary trudging in droves along the common highways, the labor of body, the despair of mind, the sickness of heart - these are the realities which belong to the system, and form the rule, rather that the exception, in the slave's experience.

  Fanny Kemble

  Husband, Children, Heart

  Fanny Kemble (1961). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.6, University of Georgia Press

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• A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food.
  [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]

  Horace

  Eating, Empty, Stomach

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• The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.

  Horace

  Eye, Men, People

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• It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Character, Taste, Traits

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• It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.

  George Eliot

  Friendship, Believe, Eye

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.441, 谷月社

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• There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.

  George Eliot

  Common Sense, Water, Pumps

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.345, George Eliot

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• Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.

  George Eliot

  Mist, Walks, Clearness

  George Eliot (189?). “The Spanish gypsy”

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• A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Imagine, Easy

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• The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beautiful, Running, Art

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• It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.

  Tacitus

  Appreciation, Esteem

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• That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

  Jonathan Swift

  Envy, Incessant, Mankind

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.327

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