Common Quotes

We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.

Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible.

We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As citizens, we must embrace those who embrace ideas, thoughtfulness, civility and kindness to others no matter what their political beliefs.

Absence - that common cure of love.

The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

Everybody says, 'I have problems overcooking steak on the grill,' but just take it off earlier! Grilling is really common sense. It's very simple. You should think of a grill as a burner - it just happens to have grates. You shouldn't be intimidated by it.

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share.

Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong.

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.

In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.

I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.

Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.

Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.