Common Quotes

Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.

Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.

The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country! Common sense wins out. I'm just so thrilled and excited. The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough.

Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.

We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax.

I have seen that the American Dream is a reality - and I would love to feel the British Dream is also a reality. To enable that, we have to bring back some common sense and encourage family values, a proper sense of justice and make people believe they have a decent chance to build a business or career for themselves. I see this moment as a fantastic opportunity to restore this, because I believe Britain Has Talent.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

We all have a common goal, and we know it's all for our future good.

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal.

Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other.

Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in 1955 and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a black domestic cleaning the kitchen, cooking the meals, looking after the white children.

Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground.

Christianity is part of the common law.

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common and comic books were one of them. I think we were talking about comic books much earlier in our relationship, before I had the part.

All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.