Common Quotes

One of the most common mistakes people make in any conversation is to think about what they want to say next instead of actually listening to what the other person is saying.

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Science ... is organized common sense.

It seems like a dangerous concept to have someone who's just your drinking buddy. Someone you have nothing in common with, if you're sober, is probably not a good, healthy friendship.

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.

With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.

I actually think the common anarchist position is that people are fundamentally good, blah blah blah. I don't believe that.

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.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

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.

People, you have six senses! The last one is common! Use it!

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!

I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

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.

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.

Jesus Christ: A common exclamation indicating surprise, disgust, anger or bewilderment.

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.

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.

when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.

In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.

Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of enlightenment.

There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.

I was imprisoned as an innocent person, it's common sense not to go back.

It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.

A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people.

I don't think a lot of people know that I can sing. It's not common knowledge.

Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.

Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave.

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.

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.

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.

Perhaps we have more in common by virtue of our common humanity than we have differences by virtue of our religions.

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.

Women didn't have rights. Under British common law, women were property.

There's a lot of common sense ... which I feel like we have lost touch with.

The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.

Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.

Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and to widen the intellectual horizons of the place.

Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.