Common Quotes

Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.

It's a common perception that science and religion are mutually exclusive. But there are many scientists who would consider themselves to be spiritual people.

Poor white people and poor black people just don't know how much they have in common. Rich people don't give a damn about either group.

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.

The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

Organized common (or uncommon) sense -- very basic knowledge -- is an enormously powerful tool. There are huge dangers with computers. People calculate too much and think too little.

Where people of goodwill get together and transcend their differences for the common good, peaceful and just solutions can be found even for those problems which seem most intractable.

Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and has the potential to become an inexpensive source of energy for neighborhoods, light and heavy duty vehicles, and industry.

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property.

Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.

No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot survivor of that time, that place.

I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.

Touch the earth, speak of love, walk on common ground.

You still hear some people speaking as though we could decide whether the Common market existed or not.

As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

The common denominator is that we have guys who are really hungry to show what they can do.

Christianity is the complete negation of common sense and sound reason.

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.

Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.

It's not like I'm looking to describe something that's only true of my own circumstances. It's beyond. It's way inside, you know. It's reaching inside to something that you have in common with many.

All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education.

They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions.

I think dating courtesies are common courtesies that should be practiced in most all civilized encounters. I pine for the days of good, old-fashioned manners.

The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.

The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.

Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

The black players at this club lend the side a lot of skill and flair, but you also need white players to balance things up and give the team some brains and common sense.

Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.

I'm Joan of Arc. I figured we had a lot in common, seeing as how I was almost burned at the stake. And plus she had that close relationship with God.

For instance, the most common type of "affordable housing" in the world comes in the form of apartments over stores.

There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.

The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense.