Common Quotes

Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.

Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.

Love at first sight is not rare, in fact it is extremely common, it happens to some people a few times a year. The feeling of what if when meeting the eyes of a stranger can be love unrecognized.

You just want to love Tim Matheson and just cuddle him. He's really - and he's gorgeous. He has much in common with [Ronald Reagan] Reagan's outward persona.

Most good evangelical Study Bibles have more in common than people sometimes realize. All of them are committed to explaining the Bible to lay readers.

The difference between people isn't in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas, and from the common people--life itself, warmth. You feel their hates and loves.

I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.

There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings.

We have to adopt a wider perspective, and always find common things between the people of north, east, south, and west. Conflict comes from the basis of differencs.

The only thing my father and I have in common is that our similarities are different.

Most people, especially activists, recognize their differences with others rather than what they have in common and that leads to frustration more than persuasion.

The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.

The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract.

Werewolves are much more common animals than you might think.

Computers operate on simple principles that can be easily understood by anybody with some common sense, a little imagination, and an IQ of 750.

Jealously is more common than loyalty.

The ancient Apostles were common men, and that was part of their credential.

A Keyring? Achievements? These are not WoW-specific things. They are common sense. They exist in the real world.

Lyrics should not need to stand on their own; many of [Bob] Dylan's do, but in common with other great lyricists, he has written plenty that falters on the page but soars in song.

Heaven is a pretty practical, common sense, down-to-earth place!

Uncontrolled or covert napping, however, is still probably very common. One need only move through a building surreptitiously and peek at people to find some subset of sleep at any given time.

The Founding Fathers worried that some common impulse of passion might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.

The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.

I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own willfully esoteric vocabulary.

I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think that's common among writers if they get cornered on something.

It was pretty common to form bands that only lasted a few years. Slint was my favorite band that I was in at the time, and I didn't realize that I was bummed out about it until quite a while later.

We all have such common ways to identify with each other, and I think when you approach music in that organic way, it's almost indescribable how it connects human to human and heart to heart.

In this room we understand why this war might be fought...it's about our common belief that no one has the right to tell two creatures that they cannot love each other--no matter what their species.

War inside countries is all too common.

Darren Hardy proves with The Compound Effect that common sense-when applied-yields amazingly uncommon results. Follow these simple steps and become who you were meant to be!

One common desire that every human being has is to love and be loved. At the end of our lives, it's how we measure our lives.

Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners.

In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so.

Even though I am in this weird position of being a semi-recognizable screenwriter, which isn't that common, at the same time, I'm not an actress. I'm pretty isolated.

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.

One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something to do.

All things are in common among friends.

Famous people don't want to be told that you have a quality in common with them. It makes them think there's something crawling in their clothes.

War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states

Identity theft, financial laundering, as well as ransom and ransomware - I mean, think of it - all involving extortion of a hacked institution are becoming increasingly common.

We want to achieve a stable, peaceful world with less conflict and more common ground.

If I'm president, we're not going to have people dying on the streets. I don't call it a mandate, I just say it's common sense.

I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.

The older I get the more secrets I have, never to be revealed and this, I know, is a common condition of people my age. and why all this emphasis on kissing and telling? Kisses are the least of it.

Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and I am just thrilled to be a part of that process.

It is still a fact that our common frontier grows stronger every year, defended only by friendship.

Despite the present, temporary interests that Israel has in common with France and Britain, you ought not to forget that the strength of Israel and her future are bound up with the United States.

We share something in common with the fabric of the whole universe that connects us.