Common Quotes

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

My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don't worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore.

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries.

Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

We have a close, unshakable bond between the United States and Israel, and between the American and Israeli people. We share common values and a commitment to a democratic future for the world, and we are both committed to a two-state solution. But that doesn't mean that we're going to agree.

Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

Common sense is genius in homespun.

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right.

You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.

What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong.

Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.