Common Quotes

When your team scores one run, it's common sense that you have to hold the other team to no runs.

[But] age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.

The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost.

The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.

It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.

It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way.

The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense.

whoever gives the common people food to eat is a good person whoever lets the common people starve is a bad person.

It is not enough that there is a collection of people with the common aim of working in unison towards an objective... Aspiration and desire only are not enough.

Oh, Gods." His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. "The name's William. It's a common mistake.

All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can't be disproved, but we have no choice but to follow our senses.

In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies.

Like all school students, I think I did a play in my school. The common things, I would say. Nothing really exceptional.

My name is actually quite a popular name in Scotland. People elsewhere always think it's far more exotic than it is. In Scotland, it's a common name.

Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from grateful appreciation]

In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

Yes, well, principles are sometimes the problem, if you ask me,' said Miles. 'Often what's needed is a bit of common sense.' 'Which is the name people usually give to their prejudices,' rejoined Kay.

No Last Meal for you guys, either. Guess we have that in common.” Someone bust out the pom-poms and cheer for the team. Yay.

A fine thing to be talking about angels in this day when common thieves smash the holy rosaries of their victims in the street.

There are certain things that words on paper can never make a crime, .. There are certain acts that by sheer common sense are not crimes.

Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And maybe technology always wins.

Dissembling is a common tool of the anger junkie.

Common mission trap for companies: trying to be all things to all people at all times.

But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.

At the root of all the varied manifestations of dancing, lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states which we cannot extemalize by rational means.

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier.

Where a majority are united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure.

It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.

A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.

Are two people drinking from the same bottle of wine having a common experience?

Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.

That’s when she’d learned that male egos and fruit had a lot in common: Both bruised easily.

I must be the only person of my age who doesn't have a bloody gong. They are so common in show business.

You know what Arnold Schwarzenegger and Meg Whitman have in common? They both got in trouble for stiffing the maid.

[Dalton] Trumbo wrote this incredible pamphlet, almost on the level of Tom Paine's 'Common Sense,' called 'The Time of the Toad.' It's an exquisitely written treatise regarding the black list era.

The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.

All of you, leave," Vlad responded curtly. "That's not nice," I mumbled. "You should talk to them before you bite them, too. Common curtesy.

The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet.

Basically, if you have above-average intelligence, you have common sense and you can speak in front of a camera and to a crowd, you can govern the state.

In the last 100 years since the invention of sound reproduction, music has really taken off and it is much more a common language because of records and transportation.

Most musicians, regardless of what culture they come from, can get together and agree on some stuff about music. As there is going to be a common ground.

The thing that all sports have in common is that they have no fantasy elements, which is a little weird.

A book for everyone concerned about our common future.

They say the one thing that people who live the longest have in common is that they have a religious belief.

We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.