Common Quotes
For instance, the most common type of "affordable housing" in the world comes in the form of apartments over stores.
We are trying to persuade all the Iraqi opposition to come breathe freedom in Iraq and use liberated Kurdistan as a base for our common struggle.
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.
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.
Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense!
It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.
The phrase surgical strike might be more acceptable if it were common practice to perform surgery with high explosives.
Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.
The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.
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.
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.
Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.
Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his mind all their peculiar touches.
It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.
The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.
The technology in making games and in making anime is really similar. There are common concepts.
Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
Average people and the average community can change the world. You can do it just based on common sense, determination, persistence and patience.
I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.
However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.
I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.
During true revival, thousands of lost people are suddenly swept into the Kingdom of God. Scenes of the lost coming to the Savior in great, and unprecedented numbers, are common.
Dorian Yates and I have nothing in common, physically speaking. He's a Volkswagen; I'm a Porsche.
There is one thing the power of God and the power of Satan have in common: Neither can influence us unless we allow them to.
If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.
Fear hath the common fault of a justice of peace, and is apt to conclude hastily from every slight circumstance, without examining the evidence on both sides.
He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.
And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.
We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground.
I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.
These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.
China and the United States have major influence in international affairs and shoulder important responsibilities in upholding world peace and promoting common development.
Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.
The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them.