Commonplace Quotes - Page 4

... And God, who studies each separate soul,

out of commonplace lives makes his beautiful whole.

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

Beautiful, Soul, Religion

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To genius life never grows commonplace.

James Russell Lowell

Genius, Grows

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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 become second nature, and we do not reflect on just how this is due solely to the working of special institutions. Commonplace thinking often has the impression that force holds the state together, but in fact its only bond is the fundamental sense of order which everybody possesses.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Night, Thinking, Order

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”

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We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a commonplace routine a near miracle to many of the world

Ronald Reagan

Freedom, Simple, People

Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.7, Humanix Books

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Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller, and commonplaces are suddenly delightful. You become your best optimistic self. Like romantic love, book love fills you with a certain warmth and completeness. The world holds promise.

Steve Leveen

Book, Reading, Optimistic

Steve Leveen (2005). “The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life”

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There are countless dimensions filled with beings of other orders. Now this may sound peculiar to some people, but it was only several hundred years ago that we invented something called the microscope. Since then worlds whose existence we did not suspect have become commonplace

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Order, Years

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I look around my neighborhood, and I see people hailing a cab or ordering their food and then paying for it all with their phone. I've read about that stuff for a really long time, and now it's starting to become commonplace.

Ben Silbermann

Phones, Long, People

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A science or an art may be said to be "useful" if its development increases, even indirectly, the material well-being and comfort of men, it promotes happiness, using that word in a crude and commonplace way.

G. H. Hardy

Art, Science, Men

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I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.

Grant Bowler

Thinking, Way, Fantasy

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.

Adam Brody

Kissing, Years, Meg

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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Penelope Fitzgerald

Mean, Ideas, Important

Penelope Fitzgerald (1998). “The Gate of Angels”, p.202, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.

Gertrude Atherton

Mystery, Eternal, Components

Gertrude Atherton (1902). “The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton”, G.N. Morang

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Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.

Miguel de Unamuno

Two, Theatre, Conversation

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One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and betrayals.

Lewis Mumford

Suicide, Betrayal, Errors

Lewis Mumford (1979). “My works and days: a personal chronicle”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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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 fly. The sculptress and the tree-climbing tyke both look up blinking when Mom calls, 'Suppertime!'

Steven Pressfield

Mom, Children, Artist

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In a modern world, increasingly filled with pop culture fads and gimmicks, Lisa Morton reveals much of the underbelly history and unknown facts regarding the biggest pop culture event in history-Halloween. Her sheer delight and well-researched enthusiasm in tackling many of the unrecognized aspects of this monstrous topic makes one wonder what we don't know about everything else that should be as commonplace to our psyche as a bag of candy.

Del Howison

Halloween, Topics, Gimmicks

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The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.

Peter Redgrove

Order, Mystery, Devalue

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For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

David Antin

Song, Circles, Corny

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I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

Christopher Hampton

Husband, Thinking, Rivals

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To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

John Philip Sousa

Mean, Average, Mind

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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

Vernor Vinge

Ideas, Progress, Corny

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Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Wish, Corny, Remarkable

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Space is going to be commonplace.

Christa McAuliffe

Space, Corny

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Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

John Masefield

People, Suffering, Tragedy

John Masefield (1923). “The Poems and Plays of John Masefield”

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You will never be commonplace if you are vigilant in love.

Elizabeth of the Trinity

Vigilant, Ifs

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