Common Quotes

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.

My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.

They aren't common, but enormously interesting. How can it be that you've been together that long and you're still intensely in love with them?

All addictions have one thing in common - they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?

All of our deeply held dreams and aspirations require us to build on our common bonds.

Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.

Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain.

Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too "cool" or too uncomfortable to ask for it.

Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, 'It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun.'

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

Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel each other.

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

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.

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

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

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

Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.

the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.

Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.

It's just common sense that if you only have one candidate remaining, the apparatus of government should be responsive enough to accommodate that and not spend any more taxpayer money,.

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

[To Aquinas] the senses are what we have in common with dumb animals. ... Our better part [is] the mind ... and [its] intellectual contemplation.

The terrorists whatever slogans they use have nothing in common with Islam.

It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing it.

Eurobonds are absolutely wrong. In order to bring about common interest rates, you need similar competitiveness levels, similar budget situations. You don't get them by collectivizing debts.

It's hard to hate up close. The more you get to know each other, the more common ground you can find and the more you can disagree without being disagreeable.

Look, I asked you here for a reason. Much as I hate to admit it, vampire, we have something in common." "Totally awesome hair?" Simon suggested.

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.

I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me.

Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.

If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great.

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.

Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health.

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

The sea is certainly common to all.

Development must be such that it positively transforms the lives of the common people.

The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Friends should have all things in common.

I have a song called 'Decisions' that features Jamie Foxx, Mary J. Blige, John Legend and Common. It's about people who have made a decision to really stand by you as friends.

The nationalist right have common views. They hate the EU, they hate NATO, they dislike trade, they admire Russia. Many of them are funded by Putin.