Common Quotes

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.

The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.

The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.

A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college days by democratic processes, because of their adherence to common ideals and aspirations.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

The ideal form of common stock analysis leads to a valuation of the issue which can be compared with the current price to determine whether or not the security is an attractive purchase.

Language is by its very nature a communal thing.

We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.

The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.

Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream.

The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it.

There's only one thing that everyone in this world has in common: whether you want to love somebody and you want to be loved in return.

The whole idea of hobknobbing and schmoozing and the concept of an "elite" class of celebrities better than the common people has always made my stomach turn.

No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.

We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream.

Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.

The United States is enriched by many cultures, and united by a single common language.

The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear.

Sisters share the scent and smells... the feel of a common childhood.

Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.

Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.

If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.

Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.

Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

Now, it's common knowledge that most towns of a certain size have a witch, if only to eat misbehaving children and the occasional puppy who wanders into her yard.

The whole man is involved, the mind, the heart and the will, and a common cause of spiritual depression is the failure to realize that the Christian life is a whole life, a balanced life.

The children of God have more in common then they have differences.

The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.

Love is the most common miracle.

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.

It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

When two peoples share a common passion: they are capable of empathising with each other's misery.

The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.

In most vital organizations, there is a common bond of interdependence, mutual interest, interlocking contributions, and simple joy.

Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base for mutual understanding.

Satisfaction may be the goal of the common man, but it is the enemy of greatness.

Although NFL teams have common interests such as promoting the NFL brand, they are still separate, profit-making entities, and their interests in licensing team trademarks are not necessarily aligned

There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him... It has nothing in common with anything created.