The earth's warmth under me, as I stretch out at night, is astonishing. It is like the warmth of another body that has absorbed the sun all day and now gives out again its store of heat. It is softer, darker than I could ever have believed, and when I take a handful of it and smell its extraordinary odors, I know suddenly what it is I am composed of, as if the energy that is in this fistful of black soil had suddenly opened, between my body and it, as between it and the green stalks, some corridor along which our common being flowed.
The Christian religion and Masonry have one and the same common origin: Both are derived from the worship of the Sun. The difference between their origin is, that the Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun.
There is something that I have in common with every citizen of Russia, the love for our motherland.
You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.
What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.
Reasoning from the common course of nature, and without supposing any new interposition of the Supreme Cause, which ought always to be excluded from philosophy; what is incorruptible must also be ingenerable. The soul, therefore, if immortal, existed before our birth: And if the former existence noways concerned us, neither will the latter.
I think that's what you and I have in common, Donatella Versace, that careful balance. It makes me proud to be an Italian. In the end, I am proud to do what I do.
Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest.
Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.
It's not enough to be aware of the domain you're working in, you need to understand it. Noticing things and being curious about how they work is the single most common trait I see in creative people. Once you can break the components down, you can put them back together into something brand new.
The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?
I wasn't searching for a common denominator - I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached was the sudden acknowledgment of the universal aspect of filmmaking.
We can sanctify ourselves in common things. We must do so.
The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.
When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.
Common sense is in spite of, not because of age.
Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
Polite beggary is too common.
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.