Common Quotes

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes.

I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of the US, Japan and the international community.

I believe in cooperating for the common good.

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.

Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.

Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn't sit half way through it. The Pulitzer is a common prize that means very little.

If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.

Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.

If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no other position is possible.

Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history.

It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House.

We will never win this war until we understand the effect that Guantanamo Bay has had on the overall war effort. And we'll never get the support of the American people if we can't prove to them that these folks that we're dealing with are not common criminals. We're going to keep them - keep you safe from them.

I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.

I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.

I've got mad energy for days. That's what people can't get their minds around. They say, 'Oh, he's going to crash.' They try to apply all these common terms to a guy who is not common. I don't fit into their little box.

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here.

For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.

Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

I like Mitt Romney as a person. I think he's a dignified person. But I have no common ground on economics. He doesn't worry about the Federal Reserve. He doesn't worry about foreign policy. He doesn't talk about civil liberties, so I would have a hard time to expect him to ever invite me to campaign with him.

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.