Common Quotes

Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.

...reality, the name we give to the common experience.

Through me the energy policy of the whole Common Market is being held up. Without opening old wounds, it pleases me no end.

Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to force them all to follow the same course.

The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.

I can't promise results, but I can promise a common destiny.

... the best way to own common stocks is through an index fund.

You must remember that the common criminal will always join the armed forces for, if nothing else, regular meals and expert training in the use of guns.

I would like the government to do all it can to mitigate, then, in understanding, in mutuality of interest, in concern for the common good, our tasks will be solved.

There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.

The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all

Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.

Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.

We dont need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.

A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

Even if it's just a little thing, something like a song, there's still that sort of common language, that common denominator that we can all relate to.

Common sense has become an uncommon virtue.

The problem with common sense is, it isn't.

John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!

I've got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.

I do not support Common Core because there is absolutely no evidence that a big, centralized bureaucracy makes anything better. In fact, there is a lot of evidence to the contrary.

Common Core has been eliminated in New Jersey.

Make sure your intentions are not only for yourself, but also for the common good.

We're going to end Common Core. Going to bring our education local.

I am going to provide school choice and put an end to common core and bring our education local.

I want to get rid of Common Core.

I'm certainly very conservative when it comes to education. We're getting rid of Common Core. We're going to have education at a local level.

Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self.

Common sense is the best prophet.

Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners is in the instrument.

I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.

There is no question we need higher academic standards and at the local level the rigor of the Common Core state standards must be the new minimum in classrooms.

A lot of conservatives, a big part of the Republican base don't like his position on common core, don't like his position on immigration.

Based on my own experiences, I made sure, and I'm proud of this, that the Common Core curriculum is hard on plagiarizers.

If we do the kind of common-sense public health measures we know work, we ought to be able to stop it from being a global pandemic.

Let every action aim solely at the common good.

The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.

Go to find common ground; where you can't, you stand your ground.

Common sense needs to be more common.

Hillary Clinton is going to find common ground with the Republicans on foreign and military affairs. They both want to enhance the military budget.

There certainly are some good aspects to Common Core.

Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good.

What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.