Common Quotes

The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different

Common sense is as rare as genius.

Common European thought is the fruit of the immense toil of translators. Without translators, Europe would not exist; translators are more important than members of the European Parliament.

Sometimes there is a common threat that can produce a common interest in putting aside all the differences in trying to find a constructive solution.

I'm actually as common as mud. I'm not particularly well read, or bred. But the way I look... I seem to have this sort of 'aristocratic' demeanor.

History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.

I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.

Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.

"Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith."

I suppose, yes, I've been guilty of provocation but it's also just common sense marketing - put a bottle of scent in a woman's cleavage, or between her thighs - and men will notice.

Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren't our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

Certainly, because the computer and computer language was still not as common as it is today. That's one of the reasons I believe Tron wasn't as popular back then as it is today.

Fred Hoyle and I differ on lots of questions, but on this we agree: a common sense and satisfying interpretation of our world suggests the designing hand of a superintelligence.

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity.

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.

Common sense - so rare it's a god damn superpower

[Garry] Kasparov and [Anatoly] Karpov have something in common. They both want to become deputies of the Russian State Duma.

The term bisexual has ended up as the ugly stepchild of sexuality, in both name and meaning. Its fate is symptomatic of the bisexual's own lot in life: to be as common as can be, but unacknowledged.

People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

If an artist and a scientist have a common point, it is probably in the need for some kind of imaginative thinking to interpret the material they have.

You must unite your constituents around a common cause and connect with them as human beings.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.

There is a lot that horses and art share in common. I have found that most horse people are art lovers, and vice versa.

Good judgment, common sense, and reason all fly out the window when emotions kick down your door.

The most common user action on a Web site is to flee.

Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.

Any suggestion that the most open and diverse society on the planet is likely to in any way resemble Russia requires a suspension of common sense that is pretty hard to deal with.

Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.

We have sown a seed... Instead of a half-formed Europe, we have a Europe with a legal entity, with a single currency, common justice, a Europe which is about to have its own defence.

The verdict of the Greek people renders the troika a thing of the past for our common European framework.

What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.

Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.

A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]

I've never done anything for the common consensus. I do things to please me. If you are happy with something yourself, you become bulletproof.

I abhor, too, the roaming lover, nor do I drink from every well; I loathe all things in common

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.

High politic is only common sense applied to great things.

Your education begins where what is called your education is over. Your fate is but the common lot of all.

A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.

The American Revolution was the grand operation, which seemed to be assigned by the Deity to the men of this age in our country, over and above the common duties of life

It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable.

I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.