Common Quotes

We must renew our efforts to keep our communities safe, from the dangers of terrorists from foreign lands and from common criminals here at home. Let no criminal believe that tough fiscal times will yield an open cell door and a ticket to freedom.

Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

The common agenda both sides seem to share is: Whatever works.

There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common but it does happen. Then there are other songs that come really quickly.

And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.

To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.

We all share a common goal - we want our children to succeed.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!"

Republicans should simply focus on first principles and give the American people what they want - an honest party dedicated to common sense, fiscal responsibility and limited government. If we govern to save the country, we'll do well as a party.

People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.