Common Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.

I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals.

There is a geography of the human spirit, common to all peoples.

Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.

For me, it's a compliment to be compared with Marilyn, the unforgettable actress, the most beautiful one of all. But, curves aside, we have very little in common.

The thing I absolutely love about food is it's a common thread that connects us no matter what culture we come from.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency.

We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.

Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

Christians and non-Christians have something in common. Were both uptight about evangelism.

In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character.

who want to benefit from the commonwealth must contribute to the common purse.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.

Successful salesman: someone who has found a cure for the common cold shoulder.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.

Woman is as common as a loaf of bread, and like a loaf of bread, will rise.

The common error today is to bring God so close that we strip Him of His "godness." We think we have him figured out. So God becomes our pal, our buddy, our Divine Butler." from "Dug Down Deep

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

Threatened men live long.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.

Common sense is not really so common. The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic

The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.

Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.

... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed.

The cause of freedom is identified with the destinies of humanity, and in whatever part of the world it gains ground by and by, it will be a common gain to all those who desire it.

Collaboration is when magic is made with more than one person. It's when more than one person finds common ground on the same page. That's collaboration.

Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.

It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong.

Common decency demands that [NCAA athletes] should be paid, but the only way it will happen is the same way workers got paid throughout American history, through a strong union.

I think a lot of people see the flu as a common cold, but it's not: it's a serious respiratory illness that could lead to hospitalization and the young are extremely vulnerable.