#common

Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as rose petals. Curse him for having hair as fair as the sun, and eyes as black as night. Curse him for having the grace of a cat and deft, cool hands. And now I am having the same argument on paper that I have in my own head on too many nights. I know my choice is sensible, but it isn't my common sense I think with, those times Rosto's stolen a kiss from me. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#handsome #infatuation #romance #common-sense

A brick could be used to increase your annual sales. But before you can sell, you’ve got to buy. For just $9.99 I’ll show you how a common brick can transform you into an uncommon salesman. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #buy

And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#common #definitely #meters #once #playing

Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#destination #destiny #journeys #love #love-story

Books and minds only work when they're open. ↗

— James Dewar

#intelligence #left-is-right-and-right-is-wrong #liberalism #open-mindedness #practicality

The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state. ↗

— David Ricardo

#common #fall #retrograde #rise #society

I have neither the ability of a poet or the flourish of a dramatist. But I must admit I was floored ↗

— Tushar Raheja

#love

It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

#believe #brought #cases #common #commonly

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

— Michael Harrington

#community #life #lived

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. ↗

— George Washington Carver

#command #common #common things #common way #life