T Quotes
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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.”
“The common people do not accurately adapt their thoughts to objects; nor, secondly, do they accurately adapt their words to their thoughts; they do not mean to lie; but, taking no pains to be exact, they give you very false accounts. A great part of their language is proverbial; if anything rocks at all, they say it rocks like a cradle; and in this way they go on.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.”
“The common people don't believe this kind of religion [of islamic fundamentalists] because first and foremost they want to solve their basic problems, including human rights and economic.”
“The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions, they are no longer willing to submit to control, but demand that everything be subject to their authority. The invariable result is that government assumes the noble names of free and popular, but becomes in fact the most execrable thing, mob rule.”
“The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.”
Source: The Life of the Fly
“The common people have the right to good health and that right is being violated by corrupt corporate controlled governments.”
“The common people need a common front to confront the common enemy. But the common people lack common sense.”
“The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“The common people say, that physicians are the class
of people who kill other men in the most polite and
courteous manner.”
“The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded.”
Source: A Clockwork Orange
“The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.”
Source: A Collection of Essays
“The common perception is it only happens to people who aren't paying attention.”
“The common perception is that when a woman is pregnant, she is most beautiful and radiates the perfection of her beauty and power.”
Source: The Magdalene Lineage: Past Life Journeys Into the Sacred Feminine Mysteries
“The common person fears to think beyond the common.”
“The common person is powerless.”
“The common person is powerless against the corporate controlled government.”
“The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.”
“The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“The common prejudice that love is as common as "romance" may be due to the fact that we all learned about it first through poetry. But the poets fool us; they are the only ones to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.”
Source: The Human Condition
“The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's Is ? not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be ? but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means.”
Source: Browning: Biographical Notes, Appreciations, and Selections from His
“The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?”
“The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity.”
Source: Morals and Dogma
“The common room was packed and noisy. Everyone was eating the food that had been sent up. Hermione, however, stood alone by the door, waiting for them. There was a very embarrassed pause. Then, none of them looking at each other, they all said 'Thanks', and hurried off to get plates.
But from that moment on, Hermione Granger became their friend. There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
“The common root, of course, comes out of Africa. That's the pulse.The African pulse. It's all the way back from . . . the old slave chants and up through the blues, the jazz, and up through rock. And it's all got the African pulse.”
“The common sense has kind of kept me completely out of trouble. This is a life where it could have went a different way. I feel like I'm definitely being watched and I'm so thankful for that to feel this protected and loved and embraced by God.”
“The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.”
Source: The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
“The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power.”
“The common sense of the word (navy) as we use it today refers to a permanent fighting service made up of ships designed for war, manned by professionals and supported by an adminsistrative and technical infrastructure. A navy in this sense is only one possible method of making war at sea, and by some way the most difficult and the most recent. There have in the past been, and to some extent still are, many other ways of generating sea power.”
“The common signs are collectively generous, unselfish, and self-sacrificing, often with the worst implication of the self-sacrifice quality. The generosity of the common sign people is not always wisely administered, but the hardships of their own lives make them peculiarly sympathetic to the misfortunes of others.”
Source: Psychoanalyzing the Twelve Zodiacal Types
“The common signs do not bestow either a hardy constitution or any unusual measure of will power. The vitality not being great, there is insufficient energy to sustain ambition or the urge to power.”
Source: Psychoanalyzing the Twelve Zodiacal Types
“The common signs do not bestow the driving power of the cardinal types or the inflexibility of the fixed signs. There is likely to be less high ambition or intensive continuity.”
Source: Psychoanalyzing the Twelve Zodiacal Types
“The common soldiers did not blame him for his excessive grief. They knew him. They knew his flaws. Indeed, I think they loved him all the more because he was flawed, as they were, and did not hide his passionate, blemished nature.”
Source: The Secret Chord
“The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.”
Source: On Education
“The common symptoms of genital herpes that usually arise are small groupings of blisters and wounds; Itching and discomfort; burning when urinating, in cases where the blisters are very close to the urethra and swollen lymph nodes in the crotch.”
“The common theme here was contempt: a poisonous disregard for human life. For Vladimir Putin’s critics have an uncanny habit of turning up dead.”
Source: A Very Expensive Poison
“The common theme of common sense is that it’s commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding.”
“The common thread between all accomplished, professional women is confidence. They are self-assured. They are not concerned with what someone else is doing because they are focused on the next goal. That is the mindset, the seed, I hope to plant inside you. It all begins with knowing and loving who you are. -Liz Faublas, Keynote Speech St. Joseph High School Women's Professional Day”
“The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.”
“The common thread from all those stories was that talking helped, and listening, and time. One day I would find my own place. I couldn't run there, though, because it didn't exist yet; I had to build it myself, out of forgiveness, truth, and terrifying gestures of friendship.”
Source: None of the Above
“The common thread in all of my climbing is it was something new, something never done before. That commonality is more important than the discipline.”
“The common thread in Asimov's robot stories is a self-fulfilling prophecy. That being afraid of science and technology leads us to acting in ways that are detrimental to ourselves and society. Or, to indvertently hand over control to people who want to misuse it, simply by our refusal to understand it.
[James Portnow, Extra Credits. Asimov Summary]”
“The common thread of the series is that these are the books that Elephant and Piggie like to read. Elephant and Piggie are retired, so this is what they do in their spare time. What will they end up wanting to read? Time will tell. We've got to let that evolution happen as the series goes on. Any return of a character would have to be organic, would have to be, for example, Laurie Keller saying, hey, I really want to do this, and me feeling that there's a story there, rather than just saying, yeah, we can get three books out of these characters.”
“The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.”
“The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.”
“The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract.”
“The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.”
Source: A passion for excellence
“The common wish of the international community is for peace instead of war.”
“The common workshop goal is revision, not suicide.”
“The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes me think and it makes me worry. I can't just plunge my hand into the meat of it. I need new approaches.”