Common Quotes
Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just 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.
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to 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.
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.
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.
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.
The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.
The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive.
Even if you didn't come from another country, the idea of how do you make a home somewhere new is common to anyone who's either going to college, shifting towns.
We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.
Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
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.
All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education.
And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.
In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.
Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.
The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.
France would be reluctant to embrace any proposal by the European Commission to slash agricultural tariffs if it threatened the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy .
Pain is as common as skin, we all experience it. It unites us all. Fortunately, that's not the whole story.
Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.
There are three things without which there is no country--common language, common judicature, and co-tillage land--for without these a country cannot support itself in peace and social union.
The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties.
You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning beforehand. You really can't over-prepare in business!
The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.
Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.
When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.
And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.
Perhaps we have more in common by virtue of our common humanity than we have differences by virtue of our religions.
To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.
People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.
Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave.
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.
Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.
In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.