Common Quotes

All of them had a restlessness in common.

I make a list of what I have in common, and what I don't have in common, with someone I'm playing

The common mistake that business people make is they're going to get drive-by business...Only gas stations are helped

For all Men would be Cowards if they durst: And Honesty's against all common Sense.

It's unfortunate when kids get hurt, but I wish parents would monitor what their kids are doing and watching. It's common sense, really.

Religious experiences are real and common, whether or not God exists, and these experiences often make people whole and at peace.

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

Postpartum depression is very, very common but a lot of people just don't recognize that they have it. A lot of physicians also don't ask (patients) about it, so it's a problem from both sides.

Memoirs need confusion. It's the thing every human has in common. We are magnificently confused.

Common observation and a plain understanding is the source of all art.

My family fight, that's the way it is. We're not common as muck or anything but we do have a little fight now and then.

Nobody likes to have trouble. The moment we get a hint that it's coming, a common response is, 'Oh no! Not again!'

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.

The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness. Beauty will always remain the highest aim of art.

We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.

People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves.

I think it's pretty common for people to get excited when they meet somebody that they know from the media.

It amazes me how little common curtesy people can show when their tested.

It's time to put America at the front of all of our agendas and to find ways to work together on common ground.

The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.

I know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There's many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal, that's exciting to me.

How about it's Hillary Clinton, she doesn't connect with people? How about they have nothing in common with her?

Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense.

We must rely less on spreadsheets and funding formulas and more on common sense.

I have always heard that uber-successful people who write books about how to become uber-successful all have one thing in common: They all meditate every day. I consider yoga my meditation.

To be an actor, a lot of times it's a strange combination of high confidence and low self-esteem. Which is a weird combination to have, but I think it's sort of very common among actors.

It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace.

I think faith is the one common denominator between everything that goes on at the race track - a faith in Christ.

How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but common air, in competition of an hypothesis.

I think when I write movies and plays and books and magazine articles, they're all storytelling, and reality is the common denominator that binds them.

America's all about the various voices, right? When we all speak with a common voice we verge on fascism, which is militaristic, and fundamentally anti-American.

The American oligarchy increasingly has less in common with the American people than it does with the equivalent oligarchies in Germany or Mexico or Japan.

China's diplomacy has made bold headway, serving domestic development and contributing to world peace and common development,.

The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations.

Very well,” Beatrix said reluctantly. “But I warn you, they may be resistant to the match.” “I’m resistant to the match,” Christopher informed her. “At least we’ll have that in common.

It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at all; since he must know that he cannot obtain anything without it.

Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums.

Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound?

If we can put the names of our faiths aside for the moment and look at principles, we fill find a common thread running through all the great religious expressions.

What we have in common is what keeps us apart.

Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do; but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.

One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense.

The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.

It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.

This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs.

The common factor of all religions is nonviolence.

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong.