Common Quotes
In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.
This common prayer project has taken years of energy, but we see it not as a way to leave our individual churches, but as a movement we hope to see permeate the larger Church.
The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.
When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.
For me, philosophy is an activity of thought that is common to human beings. Human beings at their best.
Philosophy teaches us to look at the world again. It brings out at a theoretical level what all plain, common, ordinary people, in a sense, know already.
Bjork is one of my oldest friends so we share the friendship and common roots. That is what we build on when we work together.
I think every rapper should know how to sing, like a little bit. I mean common man it'll make your rapping better straight up.
It is most often not our strengths, our courage or our successes that bring two human hearts together, but it is often our shared vulnerability, our fears and our common failures that make us one.
Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.
I mean, teenage girls and their fathers don't have a lot in common, but when you add something like comedy into the mix, it just opens up all sorts of doors for them to bond.
Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.
Jackson Rathbone can really play the guitar. Our taste in music is not exactly the same, but we found common ground with Radiohead's Creep, with which he then serenaded me.
Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.
I mean the only thing us dead soldiers got in common is that none of us was good enough or lucky enough to survive the fight. We're a host of failures.
What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.
Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important.
Ninety percent of the people in any group are nice, raised to be polite, and have more in common than not.
The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.
common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.
My brother, do men grieve over the fight of cats and dogs? So the jealousy, envy, and elbowing of common men should make no impression on your mind.
Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior.
When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes.
Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.
One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.
How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of profane existence, and in which special laws apply.
Though leadership may be hard to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is the ability to make things happen.
He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.
Office of itself does much to equalize politicians. It by no means brings all characters to a level; but it does bring high characters down and low characters up towards a common standard.
The ability to have our own way, and at the same time convince others they are having their own way, is a rare thing among men. Among women it is as common as eyebrows.
The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.
In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.
There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.
Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.
Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.
No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.
Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.
Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.
It is a little thing to speak a phrase of common comfort, which by daily use has almost lost its sense; yet on the ear of him who thought to die unmourned it will fall like choicest music.