Quotes with common-place

Quotes 1021 till 1040 of 1131.

  • Ban Kimoon We must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today – climate change – into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future.
    Big Idea 2014: The Year for Climate Action (2013)
    Ban Kimoon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Anna Lindh We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Oscar Wilde We really have everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
    The Canterville Ghost
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alfred de Vigny We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • T. S. Eliot We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Barry Lopez We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Bonnie Tyler We stay in U2's hotel. They bought a hotel, The Clarence, a nice place and it's in an area where everything's happening, so many fantastic restaurants and bars and the people are so friendly.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Dwight L. Moody We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Bill Drayton We would like to have every middle and high school become a place where there will be lots of examples of youth competence and confidence.
    Bill Drayton
    American social entrepreneur
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  • Butch Trucks We would work up a tune that would make me learn a drum pattern I hadn't played before. In the early stages, the pattern wouldn't just fall into place, and I would start thinking about it. And the more I thought about it, the worse it would get.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bob Ehrlich We're betting, at this place and this time, we have people ready for change in the state of Maryland.
    Bob Ehrlich
    American lawyer and politician (1957 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein Web publishing can create common spaces; it all depends on how we, the readers and sometimes the producers, react to technological change. If we sort ourselves into narrow groups, common spaces will be in big trouble. But there's no reason not to have common spaces on the Internet. There are lots of them out there.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Djuna Barnes Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else - and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?
    Djuna Barnes
    American writer and artist (1892 - 1982)
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  • Terence What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Arthur Hertzberg What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Jean Dubuffet What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.
    Jean Dubuffet
    French artist (1901 - 1985)
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  • Cam Newton What happens when you take a lion out of the safari and try to take him to your place of residence and make him a house pet? It ain't going to happen. That's the type of person that I am. I'm that lion.
    Cam Newton
    American football player (1989 - )
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  • Calvin Trillin What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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