Common Quotes
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.
Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
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.
Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.
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.
Development must be such that it positively transforms the lives of the common people.
The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can.but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame.
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.
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.
Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain.
I like to think about society as being a flock of birds: There seems to be a common consciousness in different time periods, and the new common consciousness reacts to the old standards.
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.
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.
Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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.
This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.
I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.
Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.
For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: "It is unlucky to marry in May.
Experience is mad when it steps beyond the horizons of our common, that is, our communal sense.
What I've learned is that at the end of the day, we are all human. We all have that in common.
The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic.
If we destroy their environments and communities, we will lose the answers they have to solving our problems, and to the protection of our common futures.
Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.
We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever.
I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common sense for an answer.
When we first got together, one of the things me and Judy had in common was a passion for the correct use of the apostrophe
Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.
One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular
It is common for rural hospitals and nursing homes to operate as a single unit in order to take advantage of savings related to cost-sharing of some services and staff.
Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.
Physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse—without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.
The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
