#common

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#common denominator #denominator #equalizer #great #living

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy. ↗

— Thomas Kincade

#disney #happy #i #like #make

People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways. ↗

— Vaclav Klaus

#being #bosses #common #common goal #different

It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer. ↗

— George Muller

#enjoy #enjoyment #give #gone #make

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants. ↗

— William Osler

#common #common sense #sense #soap #water

Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#anxiety #away #certainly #children #commonly

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common. ↗

— Satchel Paige

#avoid #being #born #common #got

The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#considerations #empirically #even #everyday #everyday life

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#also #always #beings #close #common

At midlife, I think a woman has more in common with her teenage children than anybody else. We all are kind of uncertain. We realize for the first time in either our lives or decades that we're in charge now. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#charge #children #common #decades #either