Common Quotes

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.

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.

Dorian Yates and I have nothing in common, physically speaking. He's a Volkswagen; I'm a Porsche.

The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.

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.

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.

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.

The best ideas are common property.

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.

The young and the ambitious share a common risk: appearing naive.

Average people and the average community can change the world. You can do it just based on common sense, determination, persistence and patience.

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

The technology in making games and in making anime is really similar. There are common concepts.

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.

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.

To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.

I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

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.

If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network.

Nearness to God is common to us all, Because we're all created and sustained by God, But only the authentically noble Possess and live that nearness That's a constant upswelling passion of love.

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.

I am of the level with common Astrologers; who, with an old paltry cant, and a few pot-hooks for planets to amuse the vulgar, have too long been suffered to abuse the world.

The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility

To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.

Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.

You gotta do common things, uncommonly well.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.

Pain is a common emotion in many of my songs mainly because I often don't know other ways to express it adequately. In my songs I wrestle with the things that I don't understand.

The sins we do, people behold with optics, Which shew them ten times more than common vices, And often multiply them.

Life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of settling his temporal concerns, while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed.

There are two things in the world that can never get together- religion & common sense.

Whatever is in common is true; but likeness is false.

Oscar and I have something in common. Oscar first came to Hollywood scene in 1928. So did I. We're both a little weather-beaten, but we're still here and plan to be around for a whole lot longer.

They are done merely for ornament. ... the common people regard them as supernatural.

I do not choose to be a common man.

The meanest flowret of the vale, / The simplest note that swells the gale, / The common sun, the air, and skies, / To him are opening paradise.

Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.

Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!

God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.

Being an actress has something in common with being a housewife. They both look terribly easy to someone who hasn't done them. And the easier it looks, probably the better you are doing your job.

Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors. A nation - from the Latin word meaning to be born - can have no other meaning.

I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.

London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.

There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

Differences, we know, are never so effectually laid asleep as by some common calamity; an enemy unites all to whom he threatens danger.