Common Quotes

I think the important thing now is to have a celebration and then with determination move into our common, shared, different future.

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.

Valor is common but great souls are rare.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston.

I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.

I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

Everybody says, 'I have problems overcooking steak on the grill,' but just take it off earlier! Grilling is really common sense. It's very simple. You should think of a grill as a burner - it just happens to have grates. You shouldn't be intimidated by it.

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share.

Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong.

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.

In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.

I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.