#common

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#across #always #being #clear #common

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#begun #common #entirely #europe #even

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#common #common sense #folk #inspiration #let us

You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate - you never stop running. It's not uncommon for a member of the Senate to have a fundraising breakfast, a fundraising lunch and a fundraising dinner, and then when the Senate breaks for the week to go home, more fundraisers. And that's driven by the cost of campaigning. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#breaks #campaigning #campaigns #cost #dinner

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. ↗

— Aphra Behn

#age #common #dull #each #happy

Life is lived in common, but not in community. ↗

— Michael Harrington

#community #life #lived

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#cannot #common #factions #into #long

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere. ↗

— Jack Dee

#belonged #comics #common #depression #during

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. ↗

— Elizabeth II

#define #easy #enough #indeed #pastime

In today's economy, it's more common to need two incomes to raise a family. ↗

— John Fisher

#economy #family #incomes #more #need