Common Quotes

There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.

The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don’t change governments during war.

The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.

One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

We cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself.

We are committed to the Common Civil Code, Article 370 and building of a magnificent temple at the birthplace of Lord Ram.

I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.

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.

[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone.

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

It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.

A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.

Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.

Valor is common but great souls are rare.

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.

common sense is the enemy of romance

Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.

Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

The common wish of the international community is for peace instead of war.

Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

It makes sense that there is no sense without God.

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.

When you feel that you can't fight it, you just go for it. When it comes to the arts, passion should always trump common sense.

I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible.

Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth... and what you tell it.

There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ.

There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.

The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.

We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have

Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.

Today we stand together all around the world, joined in a common purpose - to remake the planet into a haven of joy and understanding and goodness.

What the common man cannot understand he hates.

The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men.

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix.

A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common.

What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.

Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

[The United States and Israel] share many common objectives ... chief of which is the building of a better world in which every nation can develop its resources and develop them in freedom and peace.

Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.

Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence.