Common Quotes

Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.

I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it's something I'm doing.

What kind of people do we wish to become, and how do we know an American when we see one? Is it possible to pursue a common purpose without a common history or a standard text?

But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

Always look for common ground, but don't ever be afraid to choose sides.

We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy.

No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?

Common sense is strengthened by joy.

Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.

The common denominator is a love of music.

What, in the name of common-sense, had I to do with any better society than I had always lived in?

Science, and its impact on a person's livelihood is the common denominator.

I don't connect accessibility with lowest common denominator.

All earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.

Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.

The climate is a common good, belonging to all and meant for all.

The lowest common denominator of the universe is both low and common.

Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.

I don't think that brutality and idealism are mutually exclusive. It's a common denominator in my work - rabid idealism.

I'm a common-sense kind of guy.

This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud.

Even if I'm in Japan and I don't speak Japanese and the woman facing me doesn't speak French but she's dressed in Rykiel, and she recognizes me, then we have a common language right away.

The law of common sense.

What is common sense isn't common practice.

Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.

Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense

What I am endeavoring to do is simply speak the truth, speak common-sense values, free market principles and the Constitution. For every question, the Constitution is my touchstone.

Everybody knows it. Wizards are supposed to have beards. It's common knowledge.

Common sense is not too common.

Clean energy independence should be an area of common ground.

Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.

I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.

Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.

Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?

Anti-Semitism is extremely common.

I think politicians and comedians have a lot in common. One is a group of approval-seeking narcissists who will say and do anything to be liked... and comedians are always talking about politics.

As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.

Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.

I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it's such a common, constant thing in people's lives - a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it's just accepted.

Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.

There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.

The [National Socialist] Party...is convinced that our nation can achieve permanent health only from within on the basis of the principle: The common interest before self-interest.

Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.

Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better votes.

Please don't worry. It's a psychological complaint, common amongst ex-librarians. You see, she thinks she's a coffee table edition.

Common sense consists of those layers of prejudice laid down before the age of 18.

A beginner with any native common sense can play passable Rummy.

A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted one another and worked for a common aim.

You pick people, and they pick you sometimes. It's especially great to connect with people you think you have nothing in common with.