Top 100 In Common Quotes
#1. 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.
Travis Barker
#2. A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature.
Steven Pinker
#3. Dignity is something that all human beings have in common. We are all (all of us who have attained the "age of reason," that is) subject to its demands, whatever place in society we may happen to occupy, and it is this that gives us our inalienable inner value.
Michael Rosen
#4. What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.
Marva Collins
#5. In my experience, the romance novels written about BDSM have about as much in common with actual BDSM relationships as a child playing with a jump rope.
Nenia Campbell
#6. What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists consider to be their homeland.
Robert Pape
#7. What's so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of exploration and discovery. With all of us, not just writers, there is a sort of knowledge of the other. We have a lot more in common than we realize, and I think writing is really a sustained act of empathy.
Andre Dubus
#8. Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.
Norman G. Finkelstein
#9. The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life.
Industrial Workers Of The World
#10. He [The Dalai Lama] has made it his mission to say, "We can't afford to squabble over minor differences, we have to concentrate on what we have in common, our common mission, our common culture - and indeed what we have in common with the rest of the world."
Pico Iyer
#11. All who have achieved excellence in art possess one thing in common; that is, a mind to be one with nature, throughout the seasons.
Matsuo Basho
#12. I know the feeling of being with a person with whom I have nothing in common, and yet there they are, and there we are, together, sharing pieces of our lives.
Rebecca Pidgeon
#13. French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a rummage sale, rusty and missing a lot of essential parts.
Patricia Hampl
#14. All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Bob Dylan
#15. You and I are from two different worlds."
"Nonsense. We have much in common. We both like books, dogs, poems, Sir Walter Scott, dogs - I could go on."
"You listed dogs twice."
"It does not matter; I still made my point."
"No, you haven't.
Karen Hawkins
#16. In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.
Loretta Young
#17. I think every market has lot of things in common, and at the same time, every market has lot of different things.
Christian Louboutin
#18. The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.
Carlos Castaneda
#19. Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human failings.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#20. Difficult" and "impossible" are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common.
Scott Lynch
#21. The one thing all entrepreneurs have in common is that they started. The one thing everyone else has in common is that they haven't.
Ryan Lilly
#22. We were fighting for them in wars against people that we had more in common with than with the United States of Banana.
Giannina Braschi
#23. Bandits and governments 'ave so much in common that they might be interchangeable anywhere in the world ...
Terry Pratchett
#24. Sure, he was lonely. Sure, they had a lot in common. Sure, he was attracted to her, and it was clear she felt the same about him.
Tim LaHaye
#26. The world can therefore seize the opportunity (the Persian Gulf crisis) to fulfill the long held promise of a New World Order where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind.
George H. W. Bush
#27. The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.
Karl Marx
#28. 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.
Melanie Benjamin
#29. What all women have in common is that they share most of the unpaid work of the world.
Hilda Scott
#30. Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
George Sand
#31. Mohammed and the pope have this principle of religion in common: they pretend that Scripture does not contain perfect doctrine, and that they receive a higher revelation from the Spirit. The
John Calvin
#32. It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth, that it is even a sign of softheadedness and weakness. The oligarchical power feeds on the sense that we are all individuals, struggling on our own, and ennobled by the effort.
Charlie Pierce
#33. I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common with somebody - we can still talk because we were raised by the same TV and cartoons and movies.
Ernest Cline
#34. We had one thing in common - we were in love. But love is just a gift, and it doesn't answer everything and it's like a precious plant that you have to nurture and look after and all that.
John Lennon
#35. Thus, in a dialogue each person does not attempt to make common certain ideas or items of information that are already known to him. Rather, it can be said that collectively they are making something in common
David Bohm
#36. With Kennedy, I was anchored. She filled all the lonely spaces inside of me with her laughter, with her wry and witty humor, with everything we had in common.
Lauren Blakely
#37. We must stop concentrating on our differences and focus on what we have in common. Then we can realize our full potential and achieve the greatest good in the world.
Bonnie L. Oscarson
#38. Something else we have in common,then, besides the world's most perfect hair color.
Kiersten White
#39. I like to say that the one thing that all people who succeed in changing the world have in common is that they at least tried.
Kevin Systrom
#40. I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
Guillermo Del Toro
#41. Great clubs have had one thing in common throughout history, regardless of era and tactics. They owned the pitch and they owned the ball. That means when you have the ball, you dictate play and when you are defending, you control the space
Arrigo Sacchi
#42. What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want to see it. But in terms of people even understanding in common usage, some of the words we use to describe these movies, I don't know how long that's going to last.
Joe Dante
#43. 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.
Jules Breton
#44. If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.
John Stuart Mill
#45. The most striking quality that humans and animals have in common is the capacity to experience suffering.
Matthieu Ricard
#46. Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.
Colleen Hoover
#47. The Church alone, being the Bride of Christ and having all things in common with her Divine Spouse, is the depository of the truth.
Pope Pius X
#48. The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.
Benjamin Graham
#49. Alaska Airlines and I have a lot in common, so coming together to delight travelers with savory, high quality food from the Pacific Northwest made sense.
Tom Douglas
#50. They both had that in common, the desire to be needed, to know that they made someone's life a little better.
Kathleen Fuller
#51. New York was populated by the ambitious. It was often the only thing that everyone here had in common. Ambition
Hanya Yanagihara
#52. The ONLY thing leaders have in common is the shared decision to lead.
Seth Godin
#53. The years have come and gone without a single word from you. Only the sky above us do we hold in common. I look at it often as if, somehow, reflected from its immensities, I will one day find myself gazing into your eyes.
Alice Walker
#54. Chess and boxing have a lot in common, as both sports rely on the right strategy.
Vitali Klitschko
#55. So, another thing I had in common with Kathy - ripe mangoes were, truly, the best thing ever. Ripe mangoes, the dark yellow ones, would be my true love.
Mina V. Esguerra
#56. Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart ... The American identity is an exact and provable thing.
John Steinbeck
#57. Good problems and mushrooms of certain kinds have something in common; they grow in clusters.
George Polya
#58. What all disciplines have in common is a search for rules and a commitment to them. And what all great learners have is a deep appreciation for finding better rules and a commitment to keeping them. That is why great learners are careful about what commitments they make and then keeping them.
Henry B. Eyring
#59. I've remade a few movies and they all have one thing in common: great endings. If you're going to remake something, make sure that ending is tight. It's a little less challenging, if you have a great ending. If you don't have a great ending, don't remake the movie.
Chris Rock
#60. In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies.
Isaac Watts
#61. What do I have in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself, and really ought to go stand myself perfectly still in a corner, grateful to be able to breathe.
Franz Kafka
#62. Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
Thomas Carlyle
#63. Critical (i.e., separating) methods apply only to the world-as-nature. It would be easier to break up a theme of Beethoven with dissecting knife or acid than to break up the soul by methods of abstract thought . Nature-knowledge and man-knowledge have neither ways nor aims in common.
Oswald Spengler
#64. He was a nice guy. That was the sort of thing you said about somebody you had nothing against and nothing in common with; you called him a nice guy. That was what Lowell was, even to himself
L.J. Davis
#65. The way he saw it, poker and life had a lot in common. You played the cards you were dealt, figured the odds, took the gamble or not. And when your cards were shit, you bluffed if the pot was worth it, and if you had balls.
Nora Roberts
#66. You can't honestly be thinking about going back there," said Alex.
"Apparently my brother isn't only lacking in people skills," said Kenzie. "He's also lacking in common sense. Stupidity, however, he appears to have in abundance.
Jena Leigh
#67. Maybe the most interesting thing gay writers can do is show the tension between the breadth of gay experiences and the unity of what they have in common.
Vestal McIntyre
#68. Love and knowledge have one thing in common; both live on giving and sharing, more you share more it will be and make impacts over impacts, influence one to another. Love will not get lesser by giving and same goes to knowledge too..
Baris Gencel
#69. Only the sky above us do we hold in common.
Alice Walker
#70. Turkey and Brazil, though half a world apart geographically, have much in common. Both are large countries that spent long years under military dominance, but have broken with that history and made decisive steps towards full democracy.
Stephen Kinzer
#71. The harshest people I've met over the years have had two things in common: they don't fully trust anybody, and they view relationships as a means to an end.
Donald Miller
#72. We have much in common, whether Jew, Muslim, or Christian, only God can judge among us. And yet the church sows dissention and bloodshed.
Helen Bryan
#73. What do all my books have in common? A commitment to memory.
Elie Wiesel
#74. The secret was probably the appearance of fiction. Large numbers of strangers can cooperate successfully by believing in common myths. Any
Yuval Noah Harari
#75. 15. For if you look closely
At the so called idols of the world
They have something in common.
They were ignorant
They ignored the noise
They created their own path.
Priscilla Koranteng
#76. Each of us have been born with the potential for greatness. We are equals. That doesn't mean we are born into equal circumstances, or have equal skills. What we do have in common, though, is the ability to apply ourselves to achieving that which we desire.
Justin Young
#77. There is a lot that horses and art share in common. I have found that most horse people are art lovers, and vice versa.
Alice Walton
#78. Remember: if the most unique ideas were obvious to everyone, there wouldn't be entrepreneurs. The one thing that every entrepreneurial journey has in common is that there are many, many steps on the road to success.
Tory Burch
#79. When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me - I'm 43, balding, blond, whatever - there's something absolutely invigorating about winning them over. Even if it's eight people from Sweden who don't understand what I'm talking about.
Jim Gaffigan
#80. How odd, that I ruined my marriage over that little girl with whom I had nothing in common except that we both liked a good laugh and a cold beer after sex.
Gillian Flynn
#81. I can't explain the alchemy that transmuted one evening into the equivalent of years held lightly in common. The only way I can put it is that we recognized, too surely even for surprise, that we shared the same currency.
Tana French
#82. Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.
Ann Beattie
#83. When I look back on my life's greatest traumas ... I see that each one has something in common. No matter how life-shattering they felt at the time, there was an end to them.
Anna Maxted
#84. We have
Not one
In common
No two
Are shaped alike
The third
Because of that eye we lack
In the fourth
Direction there is hope
The fifth Is at the heart
-Orihime Inoue
Tite Kubo
#85. Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build.
Noel Coward
#86. I'm a super hero and I'm in a phone booth but those things have nothing in common with each other; I just come here to cry.
Christy Leigh Stewart
#87. Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a similar entry point for discussion, but the discussions still need to happen for life to get more interesting.
Tunde Adebimpe
#88. Why did you think my reason for being here had something to do with Frannie?" Luke asked. "Because she's what we all have in common." "No, Feagan is what we all have in common." "But Frannie is the one we all circle around to protect.
Lorraine Heath
#89. People who grew up as child stars have the same thing in common. You're cute, they love you; you go through the awkward stage, they don't accept you any more. Very few make the transition to adult star,
Michael Jackson
#90. We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have
Ernest Gaines
#91. The only thing Chess players have in common is Chess.
Lodewijk Prins
#92. All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#93. Stupidity is what we all have in common as human beings, but some people insist that improving it is their entitlement.
Pete Edochie
#94. These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!
Bam Margera
#95. The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to be minimal but at the same time be a little overfull - to encourage them to do a kind of poetic work.
George Saunders
#96. We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
Alan Greenspan
#97. ,,, let go of the real source of our unhappiness: our own self-obsession. Stress, loneliness, pessimism, financial worries, and unhappy relationships all have one thing in common: they're all about "me".
David Michie
#98. Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.
Billy Gibbons
#99. They had far more in common than either realised. One was born Catholic, the other Protestant. One was born Irish, the other British. But neither was the greatest difference between them. One was born rich and the other poor.
Joseph O'Connor
#100. The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious to exploit the new economic opportunities and provided the framework for a judicial system to protect and encourage productive economic activity
Douglass North
