Common Quotes
The immense success of our life is, I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it.
There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when accepted intelligently and offered to God in loving submission.
Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you're human.
There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.
What kind of bank gives back 65 percent-often less-of what you deposit? Indeed, when you compare the services of a bank and an insurance company, common sense suggests something is out of whack.
The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.
...When I look back on my life's greatest traumas...I see that each one has something in common. No matter how life-shattering they felt at the time, there was an end to them.
No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.
Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.
A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.
On the one hand, it's common sense it's hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.
Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.
Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.
...the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.
The gun legislation was doomed the minute it became associated with the words common sense.
There is one thing that 99 percent of 'failures' and 'successful' folks have in common - they all hate doing the same things. The difference is successful people do them anyway.
When we consider the promises of Christ, risking everything we are and everything we have for His sake is no longer a matter of sacrifice. It's just common sense.
The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.
I'm marrying my common-law wife, Beth, the Christian way, with a preacher and all that.
No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.
it's no use trying to pretend that mostpeople and ourselves are alike. Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than thesquarerootofminusone. You and I are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.
What is common sense? That which attracts the least opposition that which brings most agreeable and worthy results.
Saying 'Gesundheit' doesn't really help the common cold - but its about as good as anything the doctors have come up with.
In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color
Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.
Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar.
Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.
America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.
What is common to our societies is the development into a managed mass society, with big bureaucracy, managing people. The Russians do it by force. We do it by persuasion.
What we have in common is a mass men, a mass bureaucracy, and a manipulation of everyone to act smoothly, but with the illusion that he follows his own decisions and opinions.
Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
Overcoming fear has nothing to do with abandoning common sense. We retain our common sense, but we lose that emotion that is fear.
Least of all shall we preserve democracy or foster its growth if all the power and most of the important decisions rest with an organization far too big for the common man to survey or comprehend.
All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.