Search Results For common In Quotes 372

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

I've worn dresses from all different price ranges and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society that man alone is weak and adrift that he must seek strength in common action.

People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows daws and starlings that flock together.

Once a disease has entered the body all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one let me tell you.

At a certain age death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

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

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.