Quotes by Common

“We have to learn to apply wisdom in every situation and not "spiritualize" every temptation. Sometimes we need to overcome temptation by prayer and receiving grace; other times we need to put on so...”

“We are each born into a situation—a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a nation—and born into the stories told of each of these.”

“It is hard to explain just how a single sight of a tangible object with measurable dimensions could so shake and change a man”

“98% of reported hauntings have a natural and mundane explanation … it is the other 2% that have interested me for over 40 years.”

“Haylee shook her head as soon as they were gone. “Christ, how can our family be mankind’s best hope?”

“I will no longer argue with the senseless and unreasonable”

“You’ll get lost and then you’ll find it.”

“And not just the right thing; it’s profoundly the right thing to do, because the one argument for accessibility that doesn’t get made nearly often enough is how extraordinarily better it makes some...”

“Laura began to model herself more and more on those around her”

“The Spirit teaches us how to participate with God in the restoration of all things”

“Maybe I write because I’ve learned to show certain parts of my heart on the page that I still struggle to capture in speech.”

“Using guilt, fear or any other negative emotion to try to change someone’s behavior backfires 100% of the time. If you want someone to do something for you or for themselves, the most important thi...”

“Don’t discount this powerful use of appreciation. It is one of the great secrets of life. It’s the feeling and emotion of appreciation that matters most, not the lip service.”

“Here was someone who had dismissed most of what I had just been saying as too obvious to even discuss”

“Rape culture is a concept of unknown origin and of uncertain definition”

“Two principles have stood face-to-face from the beginning of time”

“Clearly, we have compiled a record of serious failures in recent technological encounters with the environment. In each case, the new technology was brought into use before the ultimate hazards wer...”

“The peak of the [Presidential] campaign happened in Albuquerque, where a local reporter said to me, Dr. Commoner, are you a serious candidate or are you just running on the issues?”

“In recent years it has become impossible to talk about man's relation to nature without referring to ecology...such leading scientists in this area as Rachel Carson, Barry Commoner, Eugene Odum, Pa...”