Commonplace Quotes

249 Commonplace quotes by 221 unique authors

This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Someday hopefully it won’t be necessary to allocate a special evening to celebrate where we are and how far we’ve come…someday women writers, producers and… — Sigourney Weaver
We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us. — Oswald Chambers
If you don't see the Internet as an opportunity, it will become a threat. In two or three year's time, the Internet will become as… — Tony Blair
Problems associated with the menstrual cycle are now commonplace. The majority of teenagers whom I have seen suffer problems such as PMS, severe cramping, and… — Mark Starr
It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as has value is,… — G. H. Hardy
They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words. — Susan Glaspell
My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention — Charles Dickens
If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people — Mark Twain
Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success. — Pierre Beaumarchais
I ask the reader to remember that what is most obvious may be most worthy of analysis. Fertile vistas may open out when commonplace facts… — Lancelot Law Whyte
Through TV and moving pictures a child may see more violence in thirty minutes than the average adult experiences in a lifetime. What children see… — Fredric Wertham
A designer…has the true responsibility to give his audiences not what they think they want, for this is almost invariably the usual, the accustomed, the… — Lester Beall
Life is either a reproducible, almost commonplace manifestation of matter, given certain conditions, or a miracle. Too many steps are involved to allow for something… — Christian de Duve
It is a commonplace among artists and children at play that they're not aware of time or solitude while they're chasing their vision. The hours… — Steven Pressfield
The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television… — Graham Joyce
Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important -… — Idries Shah
The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them. — Peter Redgrove
When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of feeling safe has… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts… — Karl Marx
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame… — Mark Twain
Death takes away the commonplace of life. — Alexander Smith
Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts… — Gary Saul Morson
To genius life never grows commonplace. — James Russell Lowell

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