Common Quotes

The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me; it's anybody who's funny.

Meadowlark and I share a common vision of bringing joy and laughter to others.

I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense.

Traditionalists like me believe the USA has become strong because of its core values, the freedom, individual responsibility and institutions like traditional marriage, which foster common goals.

Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common."

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

Morality has nothing in common with politics.

I wasn't writing stories with the intention of creating a particular collection. I simply wrote stories, and then discovered common themes among a good number of them.

Google Plus gives you the opportunity to be yourself, and gives Google that common understanding of who you are.

There's a combination of things [to survive the road trip]. Humor would be key. If everyone has relatively the same sense of humor, then that helps. And things in common, like food, eating.

I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_

Most of the time, our deeper, stronger feelings are things we all have in common.

I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.

Change happened and you thought it was forever, and immediately there were all the enemies of that change making common cause and meeting in the cloakrooms.

For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need greatness in others and the occasion to discover the greatness in themselves.

I was moving among two groups... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological climate had so little in common that... one might have crossed the ocean.

Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.

It is very common with artists who are of a generation that has already gone by to get overly concerned with, Oh my God I have to sell to the younger generation.

Yes," said Will, "you two don't seem to have much in common, save for a penchant for demon women and evil.

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical.

Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven.

You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht.

I had spent over 10 years in sports, and there's such a natural crossover between entertainment and sports. It's more common to have both of those in your arsenal.

Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

England, a happy land we know, Where follies naturally grow, Where without culture they arise, And tow'r above the common size.

Within the brain's most secret cells, A certain lord chief justice dwells, Of sov'reign power, whom one and all, With common voice we reason call.

We went our several ways," said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped.

It is a common remark that men talk most who think least; just as frogs cease their quacking when a light is brought to the water-side.

There really is confusion out there. Finding common ground sounds good. But the reality is, a lot of people on all sides have a stake in the fight.

It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are no others than the mathematical ones.

Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.

At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth.

I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.

There's a lot in common between the Trump phenomenon and the campaign for Britain to exit the European Union, known as Brexit.

You don't have to do something exotic to enjoy the benefits of natural healing agents. So many things in your kitchen - common spices, common herbs and foods - have powerful healing agents as well.

You know, you get famous and you work in these weird jobs and you don't have a lot in common with people. But once you have kids, you have everything in common with everybody.

I think every market has lot of things in common, and at the same time, every market has lot of different things.

The real beauty - inside, it comes from the heart, where love lives. If not, even the most common facial features can not hide the emptiness, which eventually pushes people.

When women vote, Progressives can win. When women organize and bring some common sense to the conversation, it becomes more authentic.

The left has lost the common touch.

The best medicine for pain sometimes is some kind of logic and common sense from older folks. They tell you, "Okay, you're not the only one who actually went through this."

Conservative coaches have one thing in common; they are unemployed.

I felt like a misfit at school, and I think that's quite common.

My mother kept alive the best part for my sister and me. At the same time, she's always been someone who's very straight and solid, which wasn't that -common in families with "'68er" parents.

Nothing is so common as to see a political upheaval pass practically unnoticed merely because the names of the leaders and their parties remain the same.

For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.

The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.