Common Quotes
Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.
In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.
England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.
Shops and clubs are very important when you want to change things. And they have a common denominator; the customer.
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We had so much in common [with June Hillary] that we just carried on with life as we had been doing. It wasn't easy, but it was - I realise now that it was the only thing to do.
It often falls, in course of common life, that right long time is overborne of wrong.
I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.
The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
However smothered under former negligence, or scattered through the dull, dark mass of common thoughts - let thy genius rise as the sun from chaos.
O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!
There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad man.
I don't think it makes any sense for an individual to invest in common stocks unless they know the company, work at the company, and so on.
Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.
Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.
Parla Come Mangi' --It is a common way to say 'be simple', 'don't try to be rhetorical' literaly: 'speak the way you eat
The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.
It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
It is a common fate -- a woman's lot -- To waste on one the riches of her soul, Who takes the wealth she gives him, but cannot Repay the interest, and much less the whole.
I think you have a case of either 'testitis' or 'I Didn't Do My Homework Syndrome'. It's common in the Spring.
I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person.
It is a mystery why people think they need to act as their friends' dietitian, nonetheless it's common.
What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.
Where unity and self-sacrifice are indispensable for the normal functioning of society, everyday life is likely to be either religiofied (common tasks turned into holy causes) or militarized.
I understand the Second Amendment. I respect the Second Amendment. I think we need to use common sense tools to keep the American people safe, to keep our streets safe.
I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common with somebody - we can still talk because we were raised by the same TV and cartoons and movies.
I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.
Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time, space and structure.
Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet.
It's always hard when you've known a person a long time and then you have to recognise that you have nothing left in common but your memories.
I think what all of us have in common is that we've been taught and trained and programmed to focus on fixing and mutilating ourselves. That's a core reason why women do not have power in the world.
Strong families cultivate an attribute of effective communication. They talk out their problems, make plans together, and cooperate toward common objectives.
Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.
don't be angry with the gentleman for thinking, whatever be the cause, for I assure you he makes no common practice of offending in that way.
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.
Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.
In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If he could do that, I could emulate him.
Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do.
Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.