Common Quotes

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in their country, are referred to as 'do-gooders.' This is how a phrase that can be used to stop an argument dead becomes part of common usage.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.

People don't think their dreams amount to much, but when I ask them to examine them for common themes, they surprise themselves at how accurate they are! They see that their dreams have value.

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Common sense often makes good law.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.

A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

We sincerely hope that south Asian countries will respect and live in amity with each other, and achieve common development, and that south Asia will enjoy peace, stability and prosperity.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.

Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

Certainly, because the computer and computer language was still not as common as it is today. That's one of the reasons I believe Tron wasn't as popular back then as it is today.

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.