Common Quotes

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.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.

So, if you look at what's common among some of the companies I have, including the Four Seasons, NewsCorp, George V, the Plaza, these are all irreplaceable brands in their own fields.

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.

Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

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

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.

Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.

My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?