Common Quotes

A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities.

Tonight was a great opportunity to take on the political status quo that has given us trillion dollar deficits and put millions out of work. Our objective was to inject some common sense into the conversation among Republicans at a time when business-as-usual simply won't work.

I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.

The left has lost the common touch.

It's unfortunate when kids get hurt, but I wish parents would monitor what their kids are doing and watching. It's common sense, really.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations.

'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.

China and the United States have major influence in international affairs and shoulder important responsibilities in upholding world peace and promoting common development.

How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.

I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.

Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump.

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.

Two common conceptions with regard to advertising which are held by a considerable number of people are that enormously large sums of money are expended for it, and that much of this expenditure is an economic waste.

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead.

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me.