Common Quotes

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Dmitri was at a total loss. It was a common reaction for people when I agreed to do something reasonable.

I work with many jazz artists as Miles Davis, Laughlin, etc.. One of the things all these artists had in common is that they had no fear.

If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common good

But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared.

The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.

Set goals - high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good.

SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

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.

When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.

All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of changing their views to fit the facts, they try to change the facts to fit their views.

If I look over my life, every single step of maturing for me, every single one, has had the exact same common denominator: accepting what was true over what I wished were true.

The Bible is common-sense inspired.

Medicinal discovery, It moves in mighty leaps, It leapt straight past the common cold And gave it us for keeps.

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

As Americans we must always remember that we all have a common enemy, an enemy that is dangerous, powerful, and relentless. I refer, of course, to the federal government.

What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes.

30% of all people will never believe you. Do not allow your colleagues and employees to work for you. Instead, let them work for a common goal.

We're helping those children who cannot help themselves and giving a push to those who can. We've done it by working together for a common purpose. I see no reason to stop now.

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.

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

I think midwifery was developed by people with common sense, people who were close to nature, and people who observed other species of mammals and saw that there were lessons there to be learned.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.

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

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

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.

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.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

Common sense tells us that the world is flat, that the sun goes around the earth, that heavy bodies always fall faster than light bodies, that boats made of iron will sink.

Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.

Common sense is not always common practice.

You will find a common dichotomy in life. Those who don't have vision or determination, and refuse to dream the impossible, are always in the majority.

For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.

Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you don't clutter yourself.

The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

We all feel a separateness; we wish that a drop of water would soften our ego; the world needs a common conscience: agreement... we must concentrate outside ourselves.

Lawful residents of San Francisco are being stripped of their freedom because of an illegal measure that defies common sense... I believe that we will prevail.

There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.

One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.

The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.