Common Quotes

In an interview, President Obama said he recently deejayed a small dance party at the White House. Obama has a lot in common with deejays. He takes requests and then completely ignores them.

One thing Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug.

Never buy a fur from a vegetarian.

The inward sighs of humble penitence Rise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns Are scatter'd with the sounds of common air.

I wonder if you've got a minute." I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.

Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.

I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.

But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common.

Whether or not Saddam is implicated directly in the anthrax attacks or the horrors of September 11, he is, by any common definition, a terrorist who must be removed.

Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.

In Nature all is common, and no use is base. She keeps no selected elements done up in gilt papers for sensitive people.

The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.

Common programmer thought pattern: there are only three numbers: 0, 1, and n.

It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.

Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.

One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.

Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people.

We're going take a common-sense, step-by-step approach that puts in place the kind of policies that will make our- our health insurance system more what I call patient-centered and lower cost.

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it were on your side and not theirs.

The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means to be despised, and a faculty worthy of commendation.

Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound ... my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks

The acquisition however perfectly of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use as a contribution to a common and shared life.

Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both the parties who partake in it.

There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to what the other is doing and vice-versa.

Understanding one another means that objects, including sounds, have the same value for both with respect to carrying on a common pursuit.

Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's wrongs his own.

To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.

The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life.

Partnership is not a posture but a process-a continuous process that grows stronger each year as we devote ourselves to common tasks.

The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.

You can't have responsibility and you can't have us living up to our ideals unless it's based on a fairly common acceptance of truth, of what is true - what is the truth here?

The common characteristics of people make a community possible, but it is their uncommon qualities that make it better.

It would be a nice problem to have. It would mean we had reached the final. I'd like to think common sense would prevail and we'd have the use of both of them.

… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.

Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive a nuclear war.

Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.

SOME YEARS, like some poets,and politicians and some lovely women, are singled out for fame far beyond the common lot, and 1929 was clearly such a year.

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.

Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.

It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.

The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems.

We had one thing in common - we were in love. But love is just a gift, and it doesn't answer everything and it's like a precious plant that you have to nurture and look after and all that.

Justice and truth are the common ties of society

Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!

Each Middle East country has their own unique kinds of challenges; but the fundamentals, the desire for democracy and freely elected governments is a common thread throughout.

You hear that liberalism lacks an idea of the common good, but I think that's a mistake.

There are various ways you might define the common good, but that would be one way you could do it.

Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.

Gentelmen heve ever been more temperate in their religion than common people, as having more reason.

I had been practicing for the Depression a long time. I wasn't involved with loss. I didn't have money to lose, but in common with millions I did dislike hunger and cold.