Common Quotes

Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.

It doesn't happen very often that you get to work with some really good friends of yours and there's a common language between everyone, you don't have to explain what you're doing, you can just run with it. It makes it just so much easier and more relaxed.

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

The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.

The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

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

France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for it to then fall into egotism or 'each for one's own'. Our duty is to set common rules around the principles of responsibility and solidarity.

Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.

We go on and on about our differences. But, you know, our differences are less important than our similarities. People have a lot in common with one another, whether they see that or not.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.

I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.

Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.

According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.

To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.

We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.