Common Quotes

Spirit of immersion and curiosity and awe and participation is something which Timothy Treadwell and I have in common.

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.

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.

When we hear the other person's feelings and needs, we recognize our common humanity.

There are some things we will always own in common. No one will ever homestead an ocean.

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.

Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.

She had much in common with Hitler, only no mustache.

I don't think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett's nuts! Just because he's a freaking billionaire doesn't mean he has common sense.

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage

Just because it's common sense, doesn't mean it's common practice.

It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

The constitution is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other.

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.

A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.

If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

Respect is more than giving consideration of one's feelings. It is showing common courtesy for another human being.

I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

When it all boils down, its about embracing each others stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.

The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance.

When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.

Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.

Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

As God took me through the journey that became the Bible study Breaking Free, He taught me to look for a common denominator among the things that triggered my destructive habits.

English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common.

Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.

There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort.

The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.

I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner.

Putting on the same jerseys doesn’t make a team. You’re still just a collection of individuals until you find a common goal.

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.

Well, first let's say that the fundamental responsibility of any government is national security - in the preamble to the Constitution, provide for the common defense and insure domestic tranquility.

A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes.

Bound together by our beliefs, we are like minded individuals, sharing a common vision, pushing toward a world rid of color lines.

But I am not discouraged. I do not despair for our country. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency, compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail.

When you desire the common good, the whole world desires with you. Make humanity's desire your own and work for it. There you cannot fail.

Sport has the power to overcome old divisions and create the bond of common aspirations

In one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness is really self-destruction in slow motion.

There is something all life has in common, and when I know what it is I shall know myself.

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.

Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?