Common Quotes

From the very fact the universe is on the whole orderly, in a manner comprehensible to our intellect, is evidence that we and it were fashioned by a common intelligence.

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

I think true love is never blind, / But rather brings an added light; / An inner vision quick to find / The beauties hid from common sight.

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.

We may be joined these days more by the questions we have in common than by the answers we share.

It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.

It is common to forget a man and slight him if his good will cannot help you.

Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.

When it comes to the care of our common home, we are living at a critical moment of history.

It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts, That all sin is divided into two parts. One kind of sin is called a sin of commission, and that is very important

From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

What is sure is that the satellite view of our world and its evolution is now a common reality.

It is a common trait of primates to become submissive and even worshipful toward one who has the power to kill them.

Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations.

The majority of us do not enthrone God, we enthrone common sense. We make our decisions and then ask the real God to bless our God's decision.

Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.

I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

Drizzt had always suspected it, but now it was confirmed, that "welcome" was his favortie word in the Common Tongue, and a word, he understood with no equivalent in the language of the drow.

She looked back to see Sam standing there at the edge of the strip of sunlight inside Common Grounds, staring after her with an expression on his face like he'd lost his best- his only friend.

Leave the door open," my dad said, the second most common warning in his arsenal. Right behind, "Nash, go home.

All sports are continuously developing, but what they all have in common is that the speed is increasing. That's also true of tennis; the ball is getting faster and faster.

[T]he historian and the detective have much in common.

There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.

But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.

The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.

All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.

Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning.

Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?

Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.

There are common denominators that unite all members of al-Nahda: There is no one in al-Nahda who doubts about Islam There is no one in al-Nahda that believes in extremist views of Islam.

Once social media was introduced, it enabled a new way for people, particularly the younger generation, to connect with one another, based on common interests, goals and even values.

All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.

I think that's what you and I have in common, Donatella Versace, that careful balance. It makes me proud to be an Italian. In the end, I am proud to do what I do.

Among environmentalists sharing two or three beers, the notion is quite common that if only some calamity could wipe out the entire human race, other species might once again have a chance.

I would love to play your common, everyday guy, but I never get cast as that.

You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.

The ultimate goal of those who blame workers for Wall Street's economic crisis is to unravel the fabric of our common life in pursuit of greed and power.

Death has more in common with Love than you might imagine.

The most common way Jesus comes into our lives is through a broken heart.

That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.

There seems to be a common strain of miserliness in the American people when it comes to throwing away toothpaste tubes which havea little left in the bottom.

The common damn'd shun their society.

Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.

The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's Is ? not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be ? but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means.

Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.

Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem.

The most common mistake we make as teachers is attempting to tell our students too much.

To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.