Top 100 Most Common Quotes
#1. It's important to stress what I didn't find. I did not prove that homosexuality is genetic, or find a genetic cause for being gay. I didn't show that gay men are born that way, the most common mistake people make in interpreting my work. Nor did I locate a gay center in the brain.
Simon LeVay
#2. The most common mistake we make as teachers is attempting to tell our students too much.
Robert H. Frank
#3. Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.
William Wycherley
#4. Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases ... found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause of battle failure, and that fear of failure ran a strong second.
Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
#5. The other thing is that doctors test only the most common estrogen level. There are three kinds of estrogen in a woman but they don't test the other two because they are so rare; mine was the third kind of estrogen.
Marie Osmond
#6. The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered - a process of tragic waste and terrible silences that will continue until women's stories are a full and equal part of the human story.
Gloria Steinem
#7. The most common way to grow a business is by overseeing each and every aspect of the company - the 'ground up' method.
Lynda Resnick
#8. The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.
Charlotte M. Mason
#9. Back pain is the single most common reason people visit the doctor.
A. J. Jacobs
#10. Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.
Tom Clancy
#11. The most common despair is ... not choosing, or willing, to be oneself ... [but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
#12. Remember, the most common thing about common sense is how uncommon it is.
Jason Jennings
#13. It is important to grasp that boredom is one of the most common - and undesirable - consequences of 'unicameralism'. Boredom is a feeling of being 'dead inside'; that is to say, loss of contact with our instincts and feelings.
Colin Wilson
#14. A partial truth is the most common path to an entire lie.
Fred Munoz
#15. People's most common regret was living the life others expected of them, rather than having the courage to live a life true to themselves, and realising some dreams had gone unfulfilled as a result.
Bianca Nogrady
#16. Most adults have a vocabulary of around 60,000 words, meaning that children must learn 10 to 20 words a day between the ages of eight months and 18 years. And yet the most frequent 100 words account for 60% of all conversations. The most common 4000 words account for 98% of conversation.
David Miller
#17. You don't have to wait for something "meaningful" to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do. There is more meaning in joy than you will ever need. The "waiting to start living" syndrome is one of the most common delusions of the unconscious state.
Eckhart Tolle
#18. Services should also hide their databases to avoid falling into one of the most common sorts of coupling that can appear in traditional service-oriented architectures, and use data pumps or event data pumps to consolidate data across multiple services for reporting purposes.
Sam Newman
#19. The most common reaction of the human mind to achievement is not satisfaction, but craving for more.
Yuval Noah Harari
#20. Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#21. Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Swami Vivekananda
#22. What is the most common investor mistake? Trading - getting in and getting out at all the wrong times, for all the wrong reasons.
Kenneth Fisher
#23. In the table below we list the most common physical, cognitive, and emotional signs of a stress or trauma reaction. If
Paul Robbins
#24. Humans are strange creatures. We lie every day, in a thousand different ways. The most common lie is, 'I have read the terms and conditions.' The second most common lie is, 'I'm fine.
Leisa Rayven
#25. In a world that values the primacy of work, the most common question that we ask and get asked is, "What do you do?" I used to wince every time someone asked me this question. I felt like my choices were to reduce myself to an easily digestible sound bite or to confuse the hell out of people. Now
Brene Brown
#26. People should be talking about "yoga asanas" as a competive sport. Because there are many forms of yoga. The most common two forms are hatha yoga and raja yoga. That's mostly what people understand.
Rajashree Choudhury
#27. The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
Charles Lamb
#28. The most common reason new mothers return to work sooner than they'd like to is because they can't afford to go without their salaries any longer.
Alexa Von Tobel
#29. The most common motives for homicide are moralistic: retaliation after an insult, escalation of a domestic quarrel, punishing an unfaithful or deserting romantic partner, and other acts of jealousy, revenge, and self-defense.
Steven Pinker
#30. According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.
Jeff Miller
#31. The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone. And throughout history, many of the most famous giants have all had acromegaly.
Malcolm Gladwell
#32. The most common thing that real reporters say to me is, "I wish I could say what you say." What I don't understand is, why can't they say what I say, even in their own way? Does that mean they want to be able to name certain bald contradictions or hypocrisies that politicians have?
Stephen Colbert
#33. Gratitude and Contentment is the greatest worker of miracles. It transforms water into wine, grains of sand into pearls, raindrops into balsam, poverty into wealth, the smallest into the greatest, the most common to the most noble, earth into paradise.
Kaspar Hauser
#34. The most common self-inflicted put-down is 'I am not a pastor-I am just a layperson.' This is all part of a clever satanic scheme to neutralize apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers along with the entire army of disciples, already positioned in the marketplace.
Ed Silvoso
#35. If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.
Swami Vivekananda
#36. Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.
Karen Joy Fowler
#37. Chapter 5.2: Generic Fonts - Sans -Serif Setting font properties will be among the most common uses of style sheets. Unfortunately, there exists no well-defined and universally accepted taxonomy for
Anonymous
#38. Atrazine - a herbicide often used on corn fields, golf courses and even lawns - has become one of the most common contaminants in American drinking water.
Charles Duhigg
#39. Turns out, Down syndrome is the most common genetic disorder, occurring once in every 800 births, and no one really knows why it happens. It just does.
John C. McGinley
#40. The four most common cancers that account for about 80 percent of all cancer deaths are lung, breast, colorectal cancer, and prostate cancer.
Laurie Glimcher
#41. We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords.
John Wesley
#42. The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.
Washington Allston
#43. By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people who call journalism 'content.
Robert Motherwell
#44. The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.
Seth Godin
#45. To put the flesh of an animal into one's belly makes one an accessory after the fact of its slaughter, simply because if cows, pigs, sheep, fowl, and fish, to mention the most common, were not eaten they would not be killed.
Philip Kapleau
#46. Life's most profound moments were, paradoxically, its most common ones: first breaths, and last.
Therese Anne Fowler
#47. The most common reason that I turn down a film project is because of my schedule. If I can't devote the time to a score that it deserves, I'll pass. I'll also turn down a film if its moral position is different than what my own understanding of right and wrong.
John Keltonic
#48. I met a lot of the senior Taliban, and I asked them precisely [about Mullah Omar]. The most common answer was he is humble. And that was very true. We never had reports of Mullah Omar living luxuriously or making money in large quantities or anything like that.
Ahmed Rashid
#49. Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.
Bill Gates
#50. Americans disagree about America because the most common consensus as to what America is or has ever been or ever was meant to be eludes us, and it eludes us because we want it to.
Steve Erickson
#51. Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur so often, few have mastered them thoroughly. They are often of a very difficult nature, and sometimes while apparently very simple they are in reality extremely intricate.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#52. Unlike fuel-economy standards, the most common method of reducing demand for oil over the past thirty years, a gas tax doesn't tell people what kind of car to drive. It simply raises the price of gasoline and lets people adjust their behavior accordingly.
James Surowiecki
#53. When I do concerts and recitals, the two most common requests are spirituals and opera.
Kathleen Battle
#54. The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
R.A. Salvatore
#55. When I look around me, I see mostly women who are alone, left by their husbands after their kids grew up, for a younger woman, which is the most common thing, or suddenly abandoned after getting married and left with young children.
Dacia Maraini
#56. Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and has the potential to become an inexpensive source of energy for neighborhoods, light and heavy duty vehicles, and industry.
Charlie Dent
#57. The most common mistake Christians make in worship today is seeking an experience rather than seeking God
Rick Warren
#58. Patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives, and the most common pattern is the circle.
Dean Koontz
#59. The most common misconception about privacy is that it's about having something to hide. "If you aren't doing anything wrong, then you have nothing to hide," the saying goes, with the obvious implication that privacy only aids wrongdoers.
Bruce Schneier
#60. Did you know that there is growing scientific consensus that one of the most common types of sugar, fructose, can be toxic to the liver, just like alcohol? And unfortunately, this is the same type of sugar that you find in most sports drinks.
Lee Labrada
#61. Of all the reader questions I get each week, the most common question I get is, 'What are you wearing?'
Katherine Schwarzenegger
#62. The two most common elements in the world are hydrogen and stupidity.
Arthur Miller
#63. One of the most common criticisms of romance is that the genre is too prescribed: If every romance novel ends happily ever after, don't the stories lack complexity? Don't the readers get bored?
Sarah MacLean
#64. It is the lack of knowledge of, or the unwillingness to recognise, or the deliberate denial of the existence of the serial bully which is the most common reason for an unsatisfactory outcome for both employee and employer.
Tim Field
#66. The most common occupation for women in G rated films is royalty - which is a great gig, if you can get it.
Geena Davis
#67. The most common trait I have found in all successful people is that they have conquered the temptation to give up.
Peter Lowe
#68. The most common reasons teams or individuals underperform are: Lack of clarity and focus Lack of ability Lack of confidence Lack of direction Lack of motivation
Anonymous
#69. Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings.
Martin Filler
#70. The most common way to identify a soldier is by the disc around his neck. But these were made of compressed cardboard and so they've all but disappeared.
Chris Roberts
#71. The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
#72. You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.
Lionel Shriver
#73. The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.
Peter Drucker
#74. It seems the most common thing for serial interventionists to do these days is to lob the term 'isolationist' at anyone who does not agree with their latest folly, and then set up a straw man about those people not wanting to be involved in the world.
Rand Paul
#75. The most common communication mistakes? Relating too much information, with not enough time devoted to connecting the dots.
John Medina
#76. The most common user action on a Web site is to flee.
Edward Tufte
#78. Wong is the most common surname in the world ... "
" ... John is the most common first name in the world."
"That's right," I said. "And yet there's not a single person named John Wong. I looked it up."
"You know, I work with a John Wong.
David Wong
#79. God's most common way of answering prayers is through people. But for that to work, Christians must pay attention and listen, we must put ourselves in a position to see others' needs, and we must respond when God calls.
Adam Hamilton
#80. Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.
Hosea Ballou
#81. The most common place crime is often the most mysterious, because it presents no new or specific features from which deductions may be drawn
Arthur Conan Doyle
#82. The quality of the information used in background checks is another cause for concern. One of the most common problems is that databases may include arrest records without any indication of whether a person was convicted.
Anonymous
#83. Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
J.C. Ryle
#84. The gospels claim that on either side of Jesus hung men who in Greek are called lestai, a word often rendered into English as "thieves" but which actually means "bandits" and was the most common Roman designation for an insurrectionist or rebel.
Reza Aslan
#85. Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike.
Theodore Dalrymple
#86. Blue is the most common eye color in Oria Province, but there is something different about his eyes and I'm not sure what it is. More depth? I wonder what he sees when he looks at me. If he seems to have depth to me, do I seem shallow and transparent to him?
Ally Condie
#87. The most common format of music on an iPod is 'stolen.'
Steve Ballmer
#88. Recent research shows that many children who do not have enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn. Children don't have to be starving for this to happen. Even mild undernutrition - the kind most common among poor people in America - can do it.
Carl Sagan
#89. The most common lie uttered without thought, sincerity, resolve, or guilt: I love you.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#90. I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind.
Carrie Brownstein
#91. The most common emotional defense is avoidance (an ineffective coping skill for any stressor) as expressed through denial (e.g., "That wasn't really bad, I barely remember it").
Brian Luke Seaward
#92. The most common music that you hear anywhere in the world now basically has its roots in that union that happened in the last century, or in the century before that. That kind of music that's groove or beat oriented just didn't exist in lots of cultures before that.
David Byrne
#93. Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#94. I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it ... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#95. The Most Common Reason You Leave A Peak Too Soon Is Arrogance, Masquerading As Confidence. The Most Common Reason You Stay In A Valley Too Long Is Fear, Masquerading As Comfort.
Spencer Johnson
#96. To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.
Richard Wilbur
#97. The most common cause of death among alpha males was ego.
Nelson DeMille
#98. True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds - a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.
Jim Bishop
#99. The EKC or Holy Spirit, can lift the most common beginning to the highest good. Yet to secceed, we must surrender our little self to achieve divine love.
Harold Klemp
#100. The most common phrase bandied about these days is 'Oh my God'. People say it automatically all the time - not realising that that's a form of prayer.
Morrissey
