Common Quotes

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing.

Far be it from me to ever let my common sense get in the way of my stupidity. I say we press on.

Our future is our sense of common destiny.

But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.

Common sense needs constant reappraisal.

any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.

It is time to put in place tough, new common-sense rules of the road so that our financial market rewards drive and innovation, and punishes short-cuts and abuse.

No one is exempt from the call to find common ground.

I absolutely think that it's possible for us to find common ground.

If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.

Somewhere along the line common sense should prevail,.

Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.

Gadfangled girl things, always robbed me of my common sense.

The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense.

I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind.

A sense of humour is common sense dancing.

I wanna be your happiness. I wanna be your common sense pain.

Americans will get along with all other nations willing to get along with us. We will deal fairly with everyone. We will seek common ground, partnership not conflict.

Common law is common right.

The art of detection is finding a common denominator for the fractions of a case.

Any defense of common sense must allow that it is revisable.

I believe in cooperating for the common good.

There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

The heresy of heresies was common sense.

Business deals are successfully negotiated every day throughout America. The common thread is a mutual desire to reach an accord. And the media business is no different.

The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.

Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.

I will go anywhere, anytime, to meet with anyone to find common ground.

I am a very committed person when it comes to finding common ground.

Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.

Daylight seemed then to be the physical manifestation of common sense.

It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.

You have to have the common sense.

I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.

Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through all of it from the time I bought my first record probably. It's always been there.

Don't try to lawyer me out of common sense.

What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.

For however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable I.

We've increasingly lost that sense of community, of the notion that there is something we contribute to and benefit from that is called the common good.

The common good is the notion of shared collective responsibility and reciprocity. It's that that we've lost.

The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.

I would rather be erring on the side of common-sense pragmatism and doing everything possible so that I felt that no stone was left unturned in terms of trying to protect school children.

The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.

Keep in view the common good of the people for all time.

Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.

Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.

Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank.

The worst affected from corruption is the common man.

From a common-sense standpoint, you're probably on the right road. The problem is, you're opening a can of worms you might not be able to shut. That might cause more problems than it solves.