Common Quotes

Adventure is the invitation to common people to become uncommon.

One common mistake is to think that one reality is the reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one.

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness.

Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.

Your birth may be common, But death must be history.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.

I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel.

Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will.

When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs.

Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

There are some common problems in the Balkans in the settlement of which Bulgaria should also participate.

The future belongs to the common man with uncommon determination.

Never assume the obvious is true.

Rapport is the ability to enter someone else's world, to make him feel that you understand him, that you have a strong common bond.

What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.

Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?

Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.

Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

You can't be common, the common man goes nowhere; you have to be uncommon

Blessed are the common people. God loves them; that is why he made millions of them.

The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?

Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.

Common sense has no place in Quantum Mechanics.

According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.

Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.

For I have dipped my hands in muddied waters, and, withdrawing them, find 'tis better to be a commander than a common man!

Heaven is filled with those who have this in common: they are forgiven and they forgive.

The Church alone, being the Bride of Christ and having all things in common with her Divine Spouse, is the depository of the truth.

Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense

The Lord ate from a common bowl, and asked the disciples to sit on the grass. He washed their feet, with a towel wrapped around His waist - He, who is the Lord of the universe!

Absence - that common cure of love.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.

The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.