Common Quotes
It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth ... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE.
In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we have travelled over, but frequently neglect to gather up experiences as we go.
They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.
Matt Damon is a great actor, and he's from Boston, so we've got a few things in common. I've seen him throw a football, though. He definitely needs to work on that.
The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.
Planes and Trains and Boats and Busses Characteristically Evolve a common attitude of blue Unless you have a suitcase and a ticket and a passport And the cargo that they're carrying is you.
Having a family that loves books and loves to read has always created a common ground for communication.
It seems like I have more in common - or hit it off better - with rappers than fools that are in rock music. It was always natural for me.
The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long before our lifetimes or even our parents' or grandparents' lifetimes.
The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.
I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.
She had always known that all lives are in common, rejoicing in her kinship to the fish in the tanks of her laboratories, seeking the experience of existences outside the human boundary.
Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister.
We are trying to reinvigorate our stagnant energy sector, to create avenues for new wealth. Clean energy innovation, job creation and energy independence should be common ground for all Americans.
Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me.
As a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy around life and art is common and understood.
I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.
A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary. Existential blindness, of sorts.
Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?
I believe that global common interests are a good foundation for finding solutions together.
As a storyteller I was influenced by the Moscow underground, where it was common to be apolitical.
A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.
Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.
Do every common act as a god should do it; speak every word as a god should speak it.
What we opprobriously call stupidity, though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency of opinion.
Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.
Islam undoubtedly deserves respect. It has some things in common with Christianity, such as Abraham as a common progenitor, and the belief in only one God.
When Berkshire buys common stock, we approach the transaction as if we were buying into a private business.
We've been in a recession, by any common sense definition, because if you look at the American public, they've got 20 billion - 20 trillion, I should say, worth of residential homes.
I think the most common meme is that it's too difficult to change. It's too risky to change. My nature doesn't allow me to change.
A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.
To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.
If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.
What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?
When we are high and airy hundreds say That if we hold that flight they'll leave the place, While those same hundreds mock another day Because we have made our art of common things.
The common breeds the common, A lout begets a lout, So when I take on half a score I knock their heads about.
Communism has failed; capitalism has failed; common sense has failed; now has to fail stupidity.
Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.
Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.