All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search--for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis.
I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.
More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles, a (political) party or faction that tolerates gay-baiting rhetoric in the name of 'family values' makes 'family values' look more and more like common bigotry.
We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.
I am for America because America is for the common people.
Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.
The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.
All addictions have one thing in common - they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.
The Church alone, being the Bride of Christ and having all things in common with her Divine Spouse, is the depository of the truth.
Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women), Be worse provided than a common archer?
If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.
Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.
If you are going to live in a house made of candy, don't move next door to a couple of obese kids. A lot of these fairy-tale characters are missing common sense.
SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.
I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.
The common root, of course, comes out of Africa. That's the pulse. The African pulse. It's all the way back from. . . the old slave chants and up through the blues, the jazz, and up through rock. And it's all got the African pulse.
Common sense needs constant reappraisal.
Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.
Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.