Common Quotes

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.

The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.

the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the cynical sneer of the man who, seeking roses, finds only ashes.

It makes more sense to find out where the middle- and long-term common ground lies.

All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.

The one common thread is purity. I created a look that highlights the innate beauty of the face from the eyes to the lip to clear, shiny skin.

Retaining our capacity for reason is common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment.

The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.

Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.

Our humanist attitude should therefore throughout be to stress what we all have in common with each other and relegate quarrelsome religion to the private domain where it can do [less] harm.

I will not perform in this city as long as the blatant targeting of black culture and minorities congregating is acceptable common practice.

If we have a common currency, the main regulator for policy in the country is the fiscal policy.

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.

I think the macho mystique was far more a guiding principle in our Dad's generation than ours, the 'strong silent type' was much more common.

All of the common core standards stuff about critical reading and critical thinking and so on can only be positive.

Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.

Revenge is never the best driver for a battle, but a common one.

For me, myth is the 'common' language of us all.

Bandara was not an easy place to return to: it could hide from the common worlds whose periphery it inhabited. But Bandara never had, in all its years, completely disappeared.

Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average human.

Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.

For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.

The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel.

Norman Rockwell, the Brueghel of the 20th century bourgeoisie, the Holbein of Jell-O ads and magazine covers; by common assent, the most American artist of all.

As long as any pro wrestling we see on the TV screen doesn't insult my intelligence and can continually use common sense, basic logic and the presentation, I am pretty cool with it.

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

Turns out, Down syndrome is the most common genetic disorder, occurring once in every 800 births, and no one really knows why it happens. It just does.

Are we to have a church in which everyone's judgment is equal to everyone else's? That's not a church, it's chaos. Common sense dictates that you keep the fox out of the chicken coop.

The trivial round, the common task,Would furnish all we ought to ask.

Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.

As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.

Every opinion which embodies somewhat of the portion of truth which the common opinion omits, ought to be considered precious, with whatever amount of error and confusion that truth may be blended.

I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.

Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.

Maybe every family is dysfunctional, and that's the only thing in common throughout the world.

The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs.

Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth.

How about we agree upon what our common American values are, which is lets make this a true land of opportunity.

The strongest common bond between the genders is the universally acknowledged truth that both men and women are unhappy with their hair.

the three most common myths of modern romance: 1. Single men would prefer being married. 2. Married men actually leave their wives. 3. Men who wear gold chains give gold rings.

Can I share with you my worldview? All of humankind has one thing in common: the sandwich. I believe that all anyone really wants in this life is to sit in peace and eat a sandwich.

The best things are the most common.

Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity.

Our vision is not just of economic growth, but also of a growth which would improve the life of the common man.

Be able to identify the most common breeds of dogs and cats on sight.

Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the energy that drives the wheel.

What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism.