Top 1200 Common Ground Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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.

Writers find common ground not through the homelands they once inhabited but the thematic questions with which they grapple.

I do think we need to find common ground on some of these major issues facing our nation.

A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.

The Sydney Cricket Ground is my favourite ground in the world, my home ground, and growing up in the bush all I wanted was to play at the SCG.

These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!

The most common way to grow a business is by overseeing each and every aspect of the company - the 'ground up' method.

The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of compromise, rule-bending, trade-offs, concessions, bargaining, striking deals, finding middle ground. In these two great armies, there was no such thing. Good was good, and evil was evil, and they shared no common ground.

Good policy usually comes from working across the aisle, and I believe tax reform needs to be tackled with Democrats and Republicans finding common ground.

Most musicians, regardless of what culture they come from, can get together and agree on some stuff about music. As there is going to be a common ground.

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground.

One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.

Everybody's got a story on their beards. I guess it's just a way of finding common ground with people you otherwise might not know.

I will always stand firm to protect the sanctity of marriage. I believe it is important to work with people to find common ground on difficult issues.

When we work together and stay focused on getting things dones, we can find common ground and make a real difference in people's lives.

Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought?

We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: (1) Accessible ground; (2) entangling ground; (3) temporising ground; (4) narrow passes; (5) precipitous heights; (6) positions at a great distance from the enemy.

The cause of freedom is identified with the destinies of humanity, and in whatever part of the world it gains ground by and by, it will be a common gain to all those who desire it.

Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.

Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that.

I've been working on my ground skills. Putting in there upwards of 3 to 6 hours a day dedicated to training. And of course part of it is groundwork, and being that I am a striker, ground work for me is more for positioning and striking on the ground.

We want to achieve a stable, peaceful world with less conflict and more common ground.

Patriotism is love of country. But you can't love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don't always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good.

My entire life has been devoted to breaking down barriers, to finding common ground.

I have tried to treat people on the other side civilly and look for common ground.

Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.

Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?

It makes more sense to find out where the middle- and long-term common ground lies.

Having a family that loves books and loves to read has always created a common ground for communication.

Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the fourth and the fifth, and with geometricians in the subject of vision; and in all other sciences many points, perhaps all, are common so far as the discussion of them is concerned. But the actual undertaking of works which are brought to perfection by the hand and its manipulation is the function of those who have been specially trained to deal with a single art.

Just because you're gay, I won't turn you away. If you stick around, I'm sure we can find some common ground.

Making our communities safer for all Americans, combatting longstanding prejudices, and ending discrimination should be issues where we can find common ground.

In the course of a healthy debate, we prioritize different goals, and the different means of reaching them. But without some common baseline of facts, without a willingness to admit new information and concede that your opponent might be making a fair point, and that science and reason matter - then we're going to keep talking past each other, and we'll make common ground and compromise impossible.

It's time to put America at the front of all of our agendas and to find ways to work together on common ground.

If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions.

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.

There really is confusion out there. Finding common ground sounds good. But the reality is, a lot of people on all sides have a stake in the fight.

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own turf in order to create this common ground.

People are so much more interested in making connections, and finding common ground, and sharing experiences than sometimes their governments are.

The big legislative updates that we need to compete in the 21st century and to raise living standards have been blocked by a reluctance to seek common ground.

It's really, really hard to get in rooms with people you don't usually work with and try to find common ground.

I have the privilege of ministering in many different streams of the church. When you do that you're never going to subscribe to everything each other believe, but there's always so much common ground. The main and plain stuff you have in common, so you build upon that. I've never found a stream of the church I didn't learn something from. Every single time, even if I didn't personally agree with everything, there was something I took away, or learned, and felt like a stronger worshipper or worship leader.

I will go anywhere, anytime, to meet with anyone to find common ground.

The psyche is the inward experience of the human body, which is essentially the same in all human beings, with the same organs, the same instincts, the same impulses, the same conflicts, the same fears. Out of this common ground have come what Jung has called the archetypes, which are the common ideas of myths.

I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

If we work to find common ground rather than fighting from entrenched, simplistic, ideological corners, we can have the safety we need and the justice we deserve.

I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.

I hope you'll find that my campaign was a reflection of how I plan to govern - bringing people together, building coalitions, and finding common ground.

Tech companies are distracting, dividing and outraging citizens to the point where there is little basis for common ground. This is a direct threat to democracy.

We need to discover a common middle ground in which all of these things, from the city to the wilderness, can somehow be encompassed in the word “home.”

If you have a girlfriend who is a fellow divorcee, you share a lot of common ground because you've been through the same things.

COMMUNICATION: If I had to pick a first rule of communication-the one practice above all others that opens the door to connecting with others-it would be to look for common ground. Too often people see communication as the process of transmitting massive amounts of information to other people. But that's the wrong picture. Communication is a journey. The more that people have in common, the better the chance that they can take that journey together.

Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.

If you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you have differences, you can find common ground on a way forward.

Obama was the first president whose biography makes sense to me. He can walk into a room anywhere and find common ground with any person.

Improving education is an area where we can find common ground. We have to measure our progress and hold ourselves accountable.

Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.