Top 100 Quotes About Common
#1. Take your own route, not the route everyone is using or taking. Create your own way; there is always traffic on the common route.
Israelmore Ayivor
#2. What you're hoping for about the concert is an overall collective experience that everyone has and that you share with them and when you hit the stage you have a "common" feeling. Even though you're the performer and they're the audience there's something uniting everybody in the room.
Joel Plaskett
#3. Our similarities bring us to a common ground;
Our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.
Tom Robbins
#4. The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.
Anna Garlin Spencer
#5. In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is undermined, what the general masses feel tend to become the common rule.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#6. Everybody goes down to a least common denominator, and as a result, productivity goes down to zero. And we've seen that in every communist country around the world.
Rafael Cruz
#8. The Bostonians are very well in their way. Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good. Their Common is no common thing - and the duck pond might answer - if its answer could be heard for the frogs.
Edgar Allan Poe
#9. They do not destroy orthodoxy; they only destroy political courage and common sense.
G.K. Chesterton
#10. What do I have in common with Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself.
Franz Kafka
#11. We would take something old and tired and common - coffee - and weave a sense of romance and community around it. We would rediscover the mystique and charm that had swirled around coffee throughout the centuries.
Howard Schultz
#12. You could take the entirety of the common sense of humans and put it in the palm of your hand and still have room for your dick.
Anne Carson
#13. There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.
Lily Collins
#15. This contrasts sharply with the progressive view that markets must respect human dignity and serve the common good while pursuing profit.
George Lakoff
#16. Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.
Thomas Jefferson
#17. did she love you?
only as an extension of herself.
what else can love be?
the common sense to care very much for something very good. it needn't be related by bloodline. it can be a red beachball or a piece of buttered toast.
Charles Bukowski
#18. Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.
Adam Lambert
#19. Foremost, step one could take is avoiding the cheap behaviour of compromising principles with decorated lies which assails the moral power of common sense.
Nilantha Ilangamuwa
#20. Nationalization, unmentionable only yesterday, has entered common usage not least because an even scarier word - depression - is next on America's list to avoid.
Frank Rich
#21. What children
and the landing of a plane
most have in common
is that they are best made
by a line drive of pilot lights guided
through a single tambourine
across the day we met
in a field of wet metal hands on The Gospel of Lightning.
Buddy Wakefield
#22. Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural common sense of mankind has been interfered with to its detriment.
John Dewey
#23. A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world.
Haniel Long
#24. The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
Samuel Butler
#25. She tied an apron round her and prepared everything with the bustling activity common to young housewives who still find something sexual in the handling of a saucepan.
Bertolt Brecht
#26. Copyright protects corporate monopoly rights over culture and provides much of the profits to media conglomeratesm encouraging the wholesale privatization of our common culture.
Robert Waterman McChesney
#27. And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries.
Nobuo Uematsu
#28. We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual - by common, I mean with the common share of stupidity, custom, and discontent - place him in the garden of Eden, and he would not find it out unless he were told, and when told, he would not believe it.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#29. It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
George Eliot
#31. I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?
Barbara Lynn
#32. It's good common sense, your grace.'
Mahina shook her head. 'Good sense is far from common, I fear, Tarja.
Jennifer Fallon
#33. Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.
Desiderius Erasmus
#34. I consider myself a reasonable man. As such, I tend to expect others to behave with a modicum of reason and common sense. Especially those with power.
Peter Horton
#35. The first-sale doctrine reflects basic common sense - and follows from the logic of treating copyrights and other 'intellectual property' with no more protection than regular property.
Marvin Ammori
#36. The free thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Matthew Arnold
#37. The different human peoples did not evolve out of a common ancestor; they were each born out of the womb of their own homeland. We appeared in different parts of the world at the same time. Each group was as much a part of their environment as the other animals and plants of the region.
Eliot Cowan
#38. At a time when we are dealing with unpredictable suppliers of energy abroad and higher gas costs at home, the decision to increase domestic energy exploration is integral to a balanced, common sense energy policy.
Randy Neugebauer
#39. Both companies have product ranges with world-class brands that complement each other perfectly. Our companies share a common culture and mission. By realizing synergies and with our combined financial and strategic strengths, we will be ideally positioned in tomorrow's marketplace.
Robert J. Eaton
#41. The public is despotic in its temper; it is capable of denying common justice when too strenuously demanded as a right; but quite as frequently it awards more than justice, when the appeal is made, as despots love to have it made, entirely to its generosity.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#42. Of all the reader questions I get each week, the most common question I get is, 'What are you wearing?'
Katherine Schwarzenegger
#44. Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts? ... Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.
Mark Twain
#45. Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.
James Fenimore Cooper
#46. Success is uncommon, not to be found by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people.
Cal Stoll
#47. If there's one common thread throughout all of history, it's that people have always fallen for the wrong people.
Leila Sales
#48. It's no use trying to pretend that mostpeople and ourselves are alike. Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than thesquarerootofminusone. You and I are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.
E. E. Cummings
#49. Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.
Larry Dixon
#50. It always takes a group of people working together with a common purpose in an atmosphere of trust and collaboration to get extraordinary things done.
James M. Kouzes
#51. Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.
Nick Hornby
#52. Success cannot come like osmosis ; hardwork , commitment and faithfulness are the common ingredients .
Osunsakin Adewale
#53. I abhor every common-place phrase by which wit is intended
Jane Austen
#54. It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#55. The murky world of terrorism is more relevant than ever today: terrorist organizations, whether Bolshevik at the beginning of the twentieth century or Jihadi at the start of the twenty-first, have much in common.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
#56. Heroes may be less than heroic, while the common man saves the day.
Barbara Kingsolver
#57. Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
Philip Greenspun
#58. They aren't common, but enormously interesting. How can it be that you've been together that long and you're still intensely in love with them?
Arthur Aron
#59. Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Helen Rowland
#60. Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have common motive to invade the rights of other citizens.
James Madison
#61. I know very well that we are not all equal, nor can be so; but it is my opinion that he who avoids the common people, in order not to lose their respect, is as much to blame as a coward who hides himself from his enemy because he fears defeat. The
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#62. Roughly two-thirds of educators wholeheartedly reject the new Common Core standards, or have reservations about them, and it would be just as accurate as the way the NEA wrote it.
Glenn Beck
#63. In real life, the truth is a rarity, while lies are common place.
Eraldo Banovac
#64. Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods.
Benjamin Stillingfleet
#65. Sometimes it is in the long-run interest of the business sector to restrict the freedom of individual firms so that they do not destroy the common pool of resources that all of them need, such as natural resources or the labour force.
Ha-Joon Chang
#66. It was easy to forget that other people lived in a world where rules and laws and common sense could keep you safe. A world where, if you did the right thing you were allowed to get on with your life in whichever way you chose.
Tabitha McGowan
#67. Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#68. Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
George Jean Nathan
#69. There was a time when I thought it necessary to have a lot in common with a person in order for friendship to grow. Now I know it has more to do with my own growth and ability to reach out without having expectations.
Terra Trevor
#70. The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity.
J.K. Rowling
#71. It had never mattered to her very much, reputation. For one who was often described as odd and strange, having little in common with others her age or gender, reputation never seemed worth much. It did not buy her friends, or invitations, or respect. So
Sarah MacLean
#72. The common breeds the common,
A lout begets a lout,
So when I take on half a score
I knock their heads about.
William Butler Yeats
#73. Before I can answer, the horde descends on him. It's scarier than a zombie apocalypse.
"Shit," he mutters.
"Oh my God, I love ketchup too!" a girl squeals at the bottle in his hand. "We have so much in common!
Miranda Kenneally
#74. Ordinary men with extraordinary power
Common men with uncommon results
Usual men with unusual anointing
Unschooled mortal men with immortal vision
Weak men with mighty deeds
-Insight for Fruitful Living
Ikechukwu Joseph
#75. It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not that common!
Madeline Zima
#76. The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
Jimmy Carter
#77. They didn't agree on much. In fact, they didn't agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.
Nicholas Sparks
#78. Every musician writes about past relationships. And other than that, I can promise you, I have very little in common with Taylor Swift.
Tom Odell
#79. There are many domestic issues that give us a lot of common ground to work on. Health, education and immigration are among the areas where we share mutual goals and aspirations. There are also many values that we share as a communities.
Bob Menendez
#80. A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.
Aristotle.
#81. What kind of people do we wish to become, and how do we know an American when we see one? Is it possible to pursue a common purpose without a common history or a standard text?
Lewis H. Lapham
#82. Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity.
Benjamin
#83. We continue to adhere to a common-sense view of risk - how much we can lose and the probability of losing it. While this perspective may seem over simplisticor even hopelessly outdated, we believe it provides a vital clarity about the true risks in investing.
Seth Klarman
#84. we see it as a means of sharing responsibility for acting together in pursuit of the common good.
Ed O'Malley
#85. I think we live in a pluralistic society where we have to get along with each other and show common grace to each other.
Rick Warren
#86. So, more times than not, but not every time, it can be linked to a medical problem, such as menopause, cancer, chronic pain, it can be linked to anxiety and depression. Those are the more common causes.
Shelby Harris
#87. Rice and vermicelli is a common combination in Arab and Turkish cooking - it has a lighter texture than rice on its own.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#88. When humanity's deafness to simple common sense is allowed to reign, the implications for the world can only be catastrophic.
Robert H. Lieberman
#89. The important role of union organizations must be admitted: their object is the representation of the various categories of workers, their lawful collaboration in the economic advance of society, and the development of the sense of their responsibility for the realization of the common good.
Pope Paul VI
#90. From time to time, people pat me on the head. It happens on public transport, in the supermarket, in bars. It's a common enough occurrence that it very rarely takes me completely by surprise.
Stella Young
#91. Creativity is simply the human brain forming new connections between ideas, and we all are engaged in this process every day. The common idea that there are some people who are creative and some who are not is a myth. On some level, we are all artists. We are all creators.
Michael Gungor
#92. The common bond of humanity and decency that we share is stronger than any conflict, any adversity. Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount. Knowing when to fight and when to seek peace is wisdom. Ubuntu was right.
Wes Moore
#93. There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity.
Evan Esar
#94. It is a common enough mid-career urge: having taken care of life's immediate needs, some of us yearn to chase villains, right wrongs, fight on the side of the angels.
Tim Wu
#95. Dictators long ago found that it is easier to unite people in common hatred than in common love.
Dagobert D. Runes
#96. I had great parents, and they trained me well and instilled great values in me. They also taught me common sense about money and that I couldn't count on the good fortune of doing a show forever. Therefore, I never spent money I didn't have and didn't end up destitute like other child actors.
Ken Osmond
#97. The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#98. The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine
#99. Behavioral economists have shown that a sizable percentage of people are willing to pay real money to punish people who are taking from a common pot but not contributing to it. Just to insure that shirkers get what they deserve, we are prepared to make ourselves poorer.
James Surowiecki
#100. One common adage ... that is completely wrongheaded is: You can't go broke taking profits. That's precisely how many traders do go broke. While amateurs go broke by taking large losses, professionals go broke by taking small profits.
William Eckhardt
