Common Quotes

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.

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.

But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It's not like you're sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it.

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

The internet is a wild land with its own games, languages and gestures through which we are starting to share common feelings.

I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.

Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.