Common Quotes

The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men.

A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

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.

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.

A great deal has been said about my commitment not to raise taxes. It's a core value - it's common sense - it's important to keeping and growing jobs - and it's mainstream!

The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model. Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.

Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

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

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in their country, are referred to as 'do-gooders.' This is how a phrase that can be used to stop an argument dead becomes part of common usage.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.

People don't think their dreams amount to much, but when I ask them to examine them for common themes, they surprise themselves at how accurate they are! They see that their dreams have value.

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Common sense often makes good law.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.