Common Quotes

The essential task of Canadian statesmanship is to discover the terms on which as many as possible of the significant interest groups of our country can be induced to work together in common policy.

There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense beliefs.

To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.

History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.

The most common occupation for women in G rated films is royalty - which is a great gig, if you can get it.

Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.

Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.

It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones.

I have made it a principle to give advice that does not serve my personal interest but rather the common interests.

The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues.

It is a common public relations gimmick to give the entire credit for the solution of famous problems to the one mathematician who is responsible for the last step.

When unique voices are united in a common cause, they make history.

Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.

All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.

I believe I have a healthy common sense and therefore have no need for religion.

This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.

We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.

Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.

Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have common motive to invade the rights of other citizens.

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

It's a very common belief [among Mormons] that the Constitution will hang by a thread and the Church will save it.

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

We all have common emotions. And, and our experiences may not be all common but the emotions sure are.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

If two or three agree on a common purpose, nothing is impossible.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish much. Success is the result of people pulling together to meet common goals.

The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.

For me all governments are my enemies and I've never made any bones about it any other way other than directly, and I don't fly the left flag or the right flag, me, I'm common sense.

Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential.

In leadership writ large, mutually agreed upon purposes help people achieve consensus, assume responsibility, work for the common good, and build community.

We need to not be scared [of muslim], but understand each other. When you're around these people, you see they have much more in common than their differences.

All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.

We Icelanders are an excellent animal model for humans. This is exactly the way you find common disease genes.

Successful organizations have one common central focus: Customers.

They all have in common that they are bacteria caused by bowel and feces.

And now, with the aid of this common beer glass, I shall play my fifty guinea solo.

I have a tremendous belief in people, not that people don't let me down, not that I haven't maybe let some people down. But I have a tremendous belief in people and in the common experience.

The common thread in all of my climbing is it was something new, something never done before. That commonality is more important than the discipline.

If you read the life of great men and women who made important changes in history, there are two common features: One, they were angry at the state of affairs and, two, they were people of faith.

One of the biggest and most common mistakes a woman makes is to substitute activity for God for a relationship with Him.

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.