Common Quotes
Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it.
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.
If you're going to go for 'it' you have a common thing you share with other artists; that's desperation. You jump out a window style-wise. Try to put it together before you hit the ground.
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.
The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men.
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.
Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.
Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.
It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.
All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who will work hard enough to bring them about.
Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.
Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods.
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.
I learned about life from life itself, love I learned in a single kiss and could teach no one anything except that I have lived with something in common among men.
Fear and faith have a lot in common. Both of these emotions require that you believe in something that you can't see.
I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.
Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.
I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18.
Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.
The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world.
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.
It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen. This right is common to the whole human race.
There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation.
When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of common words.
The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family - striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better future.
They taught me that all life forms are important to each other in our common quest for happiness and survival. That there is more to life than just yourself, your own family, or your own kind.
America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.
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.
Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
I have a variety of friends I climb with. But the common thing is I trust all of them. They're solid climbers, the sort of people I trust to know what they're doing.
A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility
I come from very common stock, and I've always been uncomfortable with pretension and all the forms it can take, including disingenuous broadcasting.
What really binds men together is their culture, the ideas and the standards they have in common.
Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
There is absolutely no disconnect between common sense gun safety measures and protecting the Second Amendment rights of gun owners.
Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.
Alas, our rulers are not gods, but puny, fallible men, like the kings who constantly forget their parts, and we common men should be their prompters.