Common Experience Quotes

27 quotes by 27 authors

All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary… — Alain LeRoy Locke
Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or duffer, we have… — John Updike
The point about football in Britain is that it is not just a sport people take to, like cricket or tennis. It is built into… — Arthur Hopcraft
...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the effort to develop… — Robert Adams
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems. — R. Buckminster Fuller
It is important to learn from other women. We have a lot to offer and to learn from each other out of our separate and… — Hazel Hawke
Simple exchanges can break down walls between us, for when people come together and speak to one another and share a common experience, then their… — Barack Obama
For is it not the common experience of all of us - you and I - that we do no incorporate the truth of these… — James W. Sire
I remember as a child of eight being told by a young friend that I had killed Christ. That was news to me. It's a… — Sid Fleischman
As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience.… — Richard Thompson
This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what miserable fellows we that inhabit… — Henry David Thoreau
The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one… — Arnold J. Toynbee
If you're doing something on an interesting scale that involves an entire universe of characters, one way to unite them is to have them all… — Shane Black
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. — John Steinbeck
...reality, the name we give to the common experience. — Tom Stoppard
In February, the overcast sky isnâ€™t gloomy so much as neutral and vague. Itâ€™s a significant factor in the common experience of depression among the… — Charles Baxter
I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience. — Evelyn Waugh
Then there is the matter of my mother's abandonment of me. Again, this is the common experience. They walk ahead of us, and walk too… — Marilynne Robinson
The rides are different for everyone. I'm convinced of that now. I mean, sure, there are some we ride together. Either we find ourselves drawn… — Neal Shusterman
Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one… — Clarence Darrow

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