Common Quotes

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.

The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.

It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.

Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.

I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

Anti-Semitism is extremely common.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

I listened to the rock music of that time, but as you know and can easily hear: my music of that era had nothing to do with the common music of this era. I was experimenting, I was searching for something new.

We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.

Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.