Common Quotes - Page 47

Partisans present some of the most refreshing music I've heard in a long while, uncompromising, very well written and very well played. It demands serious attention. I hear in these players a sense of common purpose and resolve, and a strong command of a dialect uniquely suited to this music. It's heartening to hear music that looks to find its own particular place.

The most common format of music on an iPod is 'stolen.'

Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent.

Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members.

If you're doing something on an interesting scale that involves an entire universe of characters, one way to unite them is to have them all undergo a common experience, and there is something at Christmas that unites everybody. It already sets a stage within the stage.

Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.

Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.

As human knowledge has grown, it has also become plain that every religious story ever told about how we got here is quite simply wrong. This, finally, is what all religions have in common. They didn't get it right.

Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and the unspeakable, the revealed and the unrevealed, that which is clear and that which is hidden: since, just as the Gods have made the goods of sense common to all, but those of intellect only to the wise, so the myths state the existence of Gods to all, but who and what they are only to those who can understand.

Whether it's a guy living in an airport like Viktor Navorski in The Terminal, or Anvil in Toronto, or Alfred Hitchcock who's imprisoned by his success; there is a common thread to all these characters. I don't know why I'm particularly drawn to it. It's been pointed out to me, and I don't understand it myself.

We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature... that's what takes a long time to learn.

Long-term travel isn’t about being a college student; it’s about being a student of daily life. Long-term travel isn’t an act of rebellion against society; it’s an act of common sense within society. Long-term travel doesn’t require a massive “bundle of cash”; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

I think we live in a pluralistic society where we have to get along with each other and show common grace to each other.

USE COMMON SENSE. If somebody offers you a thousand dollars for this book, chances are their motives are not pure. Then again, a thousand dollars is a lot of money. Take the money and run.

The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.

Common sense needs to be more common.

Willpower is so common among highly successful people that many see its characteristics as synonymous with success.

The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead.

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.

We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax.

Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face to face with the Lord himself. Don't deify common sense.

The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather.