Common Quotes

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

Oh absolutely. I had the pleasure to get to know a lot of really talented young actors before they even really hit it big. And yet what we all had and shared in common was a love for movies.

Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

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 new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.

No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues.

Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people.

A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.