Common Quotes

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

I've worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.

We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.

We're helping those children who cannot help themselves and giving a push to those who can. We've done it by working together for a common purpose. I see no reason to stop now.

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.

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.

I know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There's many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal, that's exciting to me.

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.

The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility.

Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.

Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.

I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant.