Common Quotes

The people who work in the fashion industry and the people who work in the film industry have a lot in common. They're very creative. Their eye is very aesthetic.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

During those rare moments of creativeness, when a person has something in common with the making of the universe, he feels a sense of transcendence. What could be a greater reward?

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.

Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.

The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.

Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything is impermanent.

95% of Economics is common sense deliberately made complicated.

In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends, Consoler of the lonely, Bond of the scattered family, Enlarger of the common life.

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense...

God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.

It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.

Scripture urges and warns us that whatever favors we may have obtained from the Lord, we have received them as a trust on condition that they should be applied to the common benefit of the church.

Stereotypes work to help divide women from recognizing their common interests.

"Akrasia" [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France.

The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.

Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.

Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain form of semiparasitic living.

Nearly everyone interested in common stocks wants to be told by someone else what he thinks the market is going to do. The demand being there, it must be supplied.

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.

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.

The biggest enemy we face is anthropocentrism. This is that common attitude that everything on this Earth was put here for [human] use.

Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off.

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete... with Dada I also have in common a certain mistrust towards power. We don't like authority, we don't like power.

You can get so well educated in America that your thoughts become detached from common sense. You can get so complicated in your thinking that the obvious isn't real to you anymore.

People have one thing in common; they are all different.

If your aim is life is pursuing truth, one of the things you might want to study is why deception is so common in life.

A common misperception of me is that I am a victim. I am not a victim. I am just honest about how things affect me.

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall

By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

What we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers.

Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices of time, fill them up with holy service.

Life sure is easier when you're rich." "And a natural born charmer. Don't forget that part." "How could I?" she retorted. "It's the only thing we have in common.

We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.

Believe nothing, No matter where you read it, Or who has said it, Not even if I have said it, Unless it agrees with your own reason And your own common sense.

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

I am a very radical person - as radical now as I was when I was younger. So my books all have in common my search for understanding of the terrible world we are living in and ways to change it.

We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.