Top 1200 Common Core Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I've managed to alienate most of what would be considered the core audience that I'm supposed to have had.

I was never really into any kind of hard-core religious structure or dogma.

Suddenly it was clear to me that all the beautiful complexity of life had simplicity at its core.

The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin.

Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you on the surface.

Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.

People are happiest when they are giving, they are saddest when they are just taking. And that is the core message of community.

We all have the same core emotions of love, jealousy, rage - it's just how they're expressed.

I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that this is all our lives - this is the one fact that applies to us all, that makes us what we are, our common mortality, our common humanity. One day someone is going to come and take us away: you don't need to have been a spy, I thought, to feel like this.

The wildest dreams of wild men, even, are not the less true, though they may not recommend themselves to the sense which is most common among Englishmen and Americans to-day. It is not every truth that recommends itself to the common sense. Nature has a place for the wild clematis as well as for the cabbage. Some expressions of truth are reminiscent,--others merely sensible, as the phrase is,--others prophetic.

She'd risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life.

Whatever things you go through, you stay true to who you are and your core values.

No university ought to be merely a national institution....The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward each other. They should be independent of the governments of the countries in which they are situated. They should not be institutions for the training of an efficient bureaucracy, or for equipping scientists to get the better of foreign scientists; they should stand for the preservation of learning, for the pursuit of truth, and in so far as men are capable of it, the attainment of wisdom.

I think every [fighting] style has the same core. It's all about changing and positioning, transitions.

The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive fur coat with no one inside it. One sees many of these coats occupying positions of great responsibility. Hans Andersen's story of the king with no clothes told one bitter and common truth about human nature; but the story of the clothes with no king describes a situation just as common and even more pitiable.

Yes, but Phantom Productions is my core team. It is like my family. And I love them.

I see love developing from friendship. Common ground is a strong basis for friendship. My husband is my best friend and we have a lot in common even though we're admittedly different people. I think it evolves from how I see relationships working. You know, the opposites attract thing happens all the time, but so does the best friends thing. It's just a great kind of relationship in fiction.

But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The seas, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death--these are things that unite us all. We resemble one another in what we see together, in what we suffer together. Dreams change from individual, but the reality of the world is common to us all. Striving towards realism is therefore legitimate, for it is basically related to the artistic adventure.

By penetrating to the core of our own being, we can make contact with the consciousness at the center of the universe.

No matter what you're going through, there is no temporary feeling or circumstance that can take away the core of who you are.

An unsurpassed master of the art of laying bare the inmost core of spiritual truth.

The core of the American public, their hearts and their minds are in the right place. And that gives me hope.

There's no denial that one's gender orientation is certainly a core characteristic of any person, but it's not the only one.

The U.S.-Israel alliance is a core part of our strategic position in the Middle East.

Music is the core of what we are trying to do, and we try to find many other ideas around it.

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.

Heartbreak has an archetypal core, all heartbroken individuals suffer from the same kind of torture.

When I run, I really need to make sure I'm engaging my core and understanding where my power comes from.

I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.

One of the core pillars of the modern American conservative movement is its emphasis on personal responsibility.

I also work out because I have scoliosis. I have to maintain certain strength in my core.

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 common humanity is revealed. We are reminded that we're joined together by our pursuit of a life that's productive and purposeful, and when that happens mistrust begins to fade and our smaller differences no longer overshadow the things that we share. And that's where progress begins.

Just because I'm British and I represent London to the core, that doesn't necessarily mean I have to stay there.

Giving up your core business in search of a phantom audience is not wise.

You cannot negotiate with organizations that are based on an ideology whose core is to destroy the West and America.

People don't want charities to usurp the state as the core provider of social services.

The core advantage of data is that it tells you something about the world that you didn't know before.

Common sense! It's nothing more than common sense for the preservation of our culture, the preservation of our country, the preservation and growth of our economy. And yet Jim Acosta and Glenn Thrush - and everybody in the press corps and practically every other Democrat - hears this and the only reaction they have is, "No compassion! No compassion for the less fortunate! No compassion for the victims of the world!"

The core of my life is Islam, my religion. Without that, I have no strength, no belief in God or in myself.

Videogames tell stories on good and evil, and so does the WWE, so that's the core of both things.

Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.

At its core, 'Spring Awakening' is about the perils of miscommunication and what happens when people are denied a voice.

I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.

My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

Thoughts come and go like leaves in the wind, but the core of consciousness is forever.

Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you imagine "common sense" surpassing science and technology in the quest to unravel the human stress mess? In time, society will have a new measure for confirming truth. It's inside the people-not at the mercy of current scientific methodology. Let scientists facilitate discovery, but not invent your inner truth.

Even personal tastes are learned, in the matrix of a culture or a subculture in which we grow up, by very much the same kind of process by which we learn our common values. Purely personal tastes, indeed, can only survive in a culture which tolerates them, that is, which has a common value that private tastes of certain kinds should be allowed.

Acting is my first focus, but at the core, I'm a storyteller, and however that comes out is fine with me.

I hate all the core stuff. That’s why I have to have a trainer. That’s the only way I’m going to do the abs work.

Geneva has a long history of hosting international organizations, which is part of the reason why CERN is here. CERN has signed agreements with the ITU, WIPO and the WMO. At first sight, there may not seem to be much common ground between CERN and, say, the World Meteorological Organization, but scratch the surface, and you'll soon find a common thread. All of these organizations have a vocation to stimulate technological innovation, and together we're stronger.

Racism should be a core concern for all Americans in every area of our lives.

Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it's at the core of all our problems.

A core plank of left-wing academic thought is that gender and race are 'socially constructed.'

There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

My voters, my core audience, are young people in Russia, so I actually do what I need to have their support.

I really wanted to get to the animal core of rock music and eliminate anything that wasn't necessary.

Innovation, having fun and giving back, should be the core values for everyone

And here I arrive at my point. The point is that everyone has a different dream. The point is that it is a grave mistake to assume your dream is in any way shared, that it’s a common dream. Not only is it not shared, not common, there is no reason to assume that other people don’t find you and your dream utterly revolting.