Common Quotes

At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.

In India there is a common saying that the way to Swaraj is through Mandalay.

A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.

Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.

The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.

...Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.

We understand that in this globalized world we all need to work together. As the Pope says in his encyclical, "Laudato Si," the Earth is our common home.

Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.

When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us.

Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.

You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends; while you live, and while you may, be good.

If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it? And what is the harm to the common weal?

The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.

I try and take everyone's ideals, common morals, flip them around, make people look at them differently, question them, so that you're not always taking things for granted.

What did all the saints have in common? They feared sin more than even physical death.

When it's hardest to pray are usually the times I need to pray the hardest. Not sure if that's irony or common sense.

If we are to access the resources of life, we must listen with our common heart to the cries of the world.

Fundamentalists of different religions have more in common with each other than they do with the moderates of their own religions.

By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.

In the common esteem, not only are the only good aboriginals dead ones, but all aboriginals are either sacred or contemptible according to the length of time they have been dead.

But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.

[Donald Trump] has had the good judgment and common sense to get back with all these people, who have written the legislation already.

love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.

Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors.

Ralph Lauren and Valentino have a lot of common. Ralph Lauren was one of the first really to put himself at the center of the story, and Valentino was even earlier.

I think all it really takes for different people to get along is a common rooting interest and a few beers.

Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.

Common sense religion emphasizes the human contributions that are supposed to move the deity. Valid worship always begins with recognition of what God has already done.

A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman.

No place is too common. No person is too hardened. No distance is too far. There's no person God cannot reach. There's no limit to his love.

No place is too common.

Gratitude. More aware of what you have than what you don't. Recognizing the treasure in the simple - a child's hug, fertile soil, a golden sunset. Relishing in the comfort of the common.

One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that's a real common mistake that we make.

If you love the roses, that is ordinary; if you love the weeds, that is extraordinary! Rather than being common, be extraordinary!

Real love and Sun have something in common; they are so bright that they don't have shadows, they are free of darkness...

Birds and the people who love freedom have something common: They must fly freely to feel that they are alive!

Wonderland was all we had in common, after all; Wonderland was what was denied the two of us. I had denied him his; he had denied me mine.

All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.

Misuse of the Koran to provide legitimacy for violence is common, particularly in Europe, where terrorists tend not to be well-educated Muslims.

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

[Trudeau and Trump] have certain things in common: they both are celebrities. Both use social media in a very big way. Both scored a big upset.

A common denominator among big guys like me who are trying to take care of our health is that we're not getting enough sleep.

We are all, after all, just human beings, and most of us have a lot in common.

Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.

The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.