#common

Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death. ↗

— John Pearson

#birth #carry #common #death #die

Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right. ↗

— Richard Perle

#cause #common #common cause #exclude #extremists

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#common #doing #duties #effective #great

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn. ↗

— Plato

#everybody #life #mouth #saying #sojourn

It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#especially #family #foil #funny #man

Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them. ↗

— Cecil Frank Powell

#been #commonly #concern #done #feel

Both the velodrome and the Commonwealth swimming pool are open to the public and are frequently used by local schools and the local community. Over the last six years young people have been inspired to take up swimming and cycling more seriously; some of them are now coming through as Olympic champions or hopefuls. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#both #champions #coming #commonwealth #community

Even though I support the blue side of Manchester's football heritage, I don't really mind that wherever I go in the world it's not Manchester City that starts the conversation. 'Ah, yes, Manchester United,' is the response when I say where I come from. It's commonplace everywhere - in Europe, Africa, Asia and even the U.S. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#ah #asia #blue #city #come

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends. ↗

— Jean Racine

#among #common #friends #maxim #old

For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#arrangements #common #concern #delegate #entity