Common Quotes

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.

Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

Terrorists oppose nations such as the United States and Australia not because of what we have done but because of who we are and because of the values that we hold in common.

What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common.

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.