Common Quotes

There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.'

What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

I know it is common nowadays for artists to start labels but this is a thoroughly constructed vehicle for inspired talent. This is a market that we've been living, breathing and eating for our entire lives - one where a huge void currently exists. Favored Nations is a long-term commitment.

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

It is much the best way... to lay the emphasis on the first part of the bar in triple time, and on the first and third parts of the bar in common time.

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs.

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.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.

Anyone can use these sites - companies and colleges, teachers and students, young and old all make use of networking sites to connect with people electronically to share pictures, information, course work, and common interests.

They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.

We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.

We simply must look beyond partisan goals and find common ground as Americans. It is imperative that the Members of Congress recognize that partisanship will not serve the American people.