Common Quotes

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

I only socialise with people that I have a lot in common with.

All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.

Marriage is not common in Sweden.

Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.

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.

Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

The common agenda both sides seem to share is: Whatever works.

Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.

There are so many things in life that divide us, that separate us and tear us apart, be it race, religion, creed, socioeconomic level, nationality or any variety of other factors. But running is something that we all share in common.

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

When I want to kick it up, I like to add hardwood chips or chunks to the grill; it adds bold smoky flavors. The most common woods are hickory and mesquite, but you can find alder, apple, cherry and, my personal favorite, pecan.

There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.

The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

Have common sense and stick to the point.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

The terrorists whatever slogans they use have nothing in common with Islam.

The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents.

When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead.

Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history.

I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it's common sense.

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

If we have a common currency, the main regulator for policy in the country is the fiscal policy.

Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

I have confidence in people's basic common sense.

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

The constitution is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other.

It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House.

So, if you look at what's common among some of the companies I have, including the Four Seasons, NewsCorp, George V, the Plaza, these are all irreplaceable brands in their own fields.

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.

What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think.

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be.

Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.

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

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.