Common Quotes

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

The launch of the report coincides with the initiation by WHO of the global strategy for the prevention and control of osteoporosis, and I think a good partnership could be established in our common efforts to prevent osteoporosis.

What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it.

A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known.

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

Oh absolutely. I had the pleasure to get to know a lot of really talented young actors before they even really hit it big. And yet what we all had and shared in common was a love for movies.

Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.'

What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

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.