Common Quotes
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.
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.
There is absolutely no disconnect between common sense gun safety measures and protecting the Second Amendment rights of gun owners.
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
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.
When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.
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.
I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.
Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
What really binds men together is their culture, the ideas and the standards they have in common.
I come from very common stock, and I've always been uncomfortable with pretension and all the forms it can take, including disingenuous broadcasting.
A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility
Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.
The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity.
I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
Understand that you don't know it all. You don't know anything yet. What you've been taught is great, but always go with common sense. And don't marry your first love.
The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.
The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.
The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.
That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
It is when you have done your work honestly, when you have contributed your share to the common fund that you begin to live.
Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.
Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse and animate our own people.
There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.
There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war.
There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.
There are some things we will always own in common. No one will ever homestead an ocean.
When we hear the other person's feelings and needs, we recognize our common humanity.
The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.
Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.
Spirit of immersion and curiosity and awe and participation is something which Timothy Treadwell and I have in common.
No one ever owns a cat...you share a common habitation on a basis of equal rights and mutual respects...although somehow the cat always comes out ahead of the deal.
Monks transgress the Laws of the Buddha, stir up the common people, store wealth and weapons, and spread rumors; under the guise of religion, they are nothing more than self-serving agitators.
I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?
Honestly, my character doesn't have much in common with Harry Potter besides the fact that he's an unlikely hero who's thrown into a huge situation.