Common Quotes
Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.
Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.
I think one of the things about parents and children is there are the accidents of temperament. There's no guarantee that just because you are related you'll have anything in common.
Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.
I know of no common interest that exceeds gardening as a source of lifelong friendships, nor as a means of making new friends almost constantly.
As Kant says, the contribution of any common laborer would be greater than that of the greatest philosopher unless the philosopher makes some contribution to establishing the rights of humanity.
Crafting, or 'making things,' has always been a delightful pastime of mine because it requires putting common elements together in order to achieve a lovely something that nobody needs.
The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence of thought.
Failing to open the center at the right moment - a common error by White in the Exchange Lopez - can allow Black an excellent game.
There are so many common occurrences in raising children that people just can't seem to figure out.
I'm the type of individual that I enjoy watching any different cultural lives, and I see the common humanity even though the hair textures are different or the skin tones are varied.
There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.
Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been
To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things.
I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago!.
You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.
We're all born, and if you're going to live to be elderly, you'll have gone through a life journey different than anyone else's. It's unique to you, but you'll have some common themes.
Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear
We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language.
I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.
Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
I feel like everyone kind of knew someone, like 6 degrees of separation. In Hollywood that is very common.
Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human failings.
This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.
She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.
People everywhere look to the United States to use its remarkable power to help lift humanity up and to work for the common good.
In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share.
The US and Australia have a lot in common. One of the things we have in common is we produce a lot of carbon.
Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.
One thing both men have in common is a love of golf and a shared knowledge of the word "mulligan," which means a do-over to replace a lousy shot.
Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.
It's funny, 99% of the time, haters and the 1 they hate on have everything in common and could be best friends.
Yearning is the word that best describes a common psychological state shared by many of us, cutting across boundaries of race, class, gender, and sexual practice.
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity.
No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.
Aristotle's metaphysics, roughly speaking, may be described as Plato diluted by common sense. He is difficult because Plato and common sense do not mix easily.
I've worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.