Common Ground Quotes
Common Ground Quote of the day
Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?
Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other.
As believers we all have an opportunity and moral obligation to recognize our spiritual common ground; to rise above our differences; to combat prejudice and intolerance.
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.
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.
Our similarities bring us to a common ground; Our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.
That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question.
It's good to find common ground with people. When you find common ground and you see things from other people's perspective, you can have a voice in their lives, you can have an influence.
If we reach common ground, and can understand what everybody's going through, we can really affect change. And make sure that everyone is trated equally and has the same freedom.
While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is the common ground upon which they meet.
Compassion gives us a common ground to stand on regardless of your faith background. It gives us a chance to stand shoulder-to-shoulder rather than go fist-to-fist with somebody.
Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.
Collaboration is when magic is made with more than one person. It's when more than one person finds common ground on the same page. That's collaboration.
If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions.
I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to occupy, and then appeal to the best nature of people on that common ground.
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.
President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.
Silence is our deepest nature, our home, our common ground, our peace. Silence reveals. Silence heals.
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.
It's hard to hate up close. The more you get to know each other, the more common ground you can find and the more you can disagree without being disagreeable.
We simply must look beyond partisan goals and find common ground as Americans. It is imperative that the Members of Congress recognize that partisanship will not serve the American people.
The broader and higher aspects of life are international.... There is a goal towards which all nations gravitate, and there is a common ground upon which all nations meet.
We meet on the common ground of an uncommon age and share out our gifts of dark and light, good and bad, simple joy and not so simple sorrow.
Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion... Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.
Hillary Clinton is going to find common ground with the Republicans on foreign and military affairs. They both want to enhance the military budget.
It makes more sense to find out where the middle- and long-term common ground lies.
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.
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.
It's time to put America at the front of all of our agendas and to find ways to work together on common ground.
When, President Bush asks me to go with his father to the Tsunami impacted areas and help raise money, I was thrilled to do that, because I think we have to always keep looking for common ground.
Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound?
We are trying to reinvigorate our stagnant energy sector, to create avenues for new wealth. Clean energy innovation, job creation and energy independence should be common ground for all Americans.
Having a family that loves books and loves to read has always created a common ground for communication.
For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground, a place where sound was alien.
Jackson Rathbone can really play the guitar. Our taste in music is not exactly the same, but we found common ground with Radiohead's Creep, with which he then serenaded me.
This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud. I should have been with him; she should have left him alone. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.
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.
Americans will get along with all other nations willing to get along with us. We will deal fairly with everyone. We will seek common ground, partnership not conflict.
