Common Quotes
The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.
We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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.
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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.
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.
... 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.
Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.
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.
It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors.
The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.
One of the most common ways of not acknowledging our faults is to blame others.
Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.
Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, will never really materialize?
Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense
The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.
No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon.
Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.
As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.
The inner cities, education is almost worthless, it's horrible. We're going to have Common Core ended.
The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.
The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to hope.
To share a lot of ideas - not ideas - emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
We have a lowest-common-denominator Christianity being taught in so many denominations that has produced a people who simply do not know some of the most basic Christian truths.
The most striking thing about highly effective leaders is how little they have in common. What one swears by, another warns against. But one trait stands out: the willingness to risk.
The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.
Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.
Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.
A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has to work with as well.
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues.
A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.