Common Quotes

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead.

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me.

Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

Terrorists oppose nations such as the United States and Australia not because of what we have done but because of who we are and because of the values that we hold in common.

What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common.

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don't have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic.

We must renew our efforts to keep our communities safe, from the dangers of terrorists from foreign lands and from common criminals here at home. Let no criminal believe that tough fiscal times will yield an open cell door and a ticket to freedom.

Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.