#common

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures. ↗

— Stewart Udall

#american #brother #common #creatures #earth

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. ↗

— An Wang

#common sense #consistent #function #genius #more

Where I would fault President Bush the most was that, in the wake of 9/11, he motivated our military, but he didn't call the nation into a state of war. And he didn't explain that this would take though a communal effort against common foe. ↗

— Frank Miller

#bush #call #common #communal #effort

Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#augustine #common #i #make #me

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#circumstances #common #common sense #historical #i

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#common #common sense #our #place #racism

The most common phrase bandied about these days is 'Oh my God'. People say it automatically all the time - not realising that that's a form of prayer. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#automatically #bandied #common #days #form

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

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised. ↗

— David Leavitt

#common #disguised #experience #fiction #own

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality. ↗

— Walter Legge

#arts #chaos #common #democracy #fatal