Common Quotes · Page 14

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

— Anonymous

Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat.

— Stuart Chase

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

— Anonymous

Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

— Oscar Wilde

I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals,

— Thierry Mugler

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

— Mason Cooley

Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice.

— Dan Brown

Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

— William Shakespeare

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

— James F. Cooper

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

— Simon Callow

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

— Roland Barthes

Every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense: I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

— Jimmy Carter

The internet is a wild land with its own games, languages and gestures through which we are starting to share common feelings.

— Ai Weiwei

Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.

— Michael Parenti

You still hear some people speaking as though we could decide whether the Common market existed or not.

— Hugh Gaitskell

The Common Core State Standards are more rigorous standards than the great majority of states had in place previously.

— Jeb Bush

Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good…

— Imran Khan

She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my eyes,…

— Jerry Spinelli

One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story,…

— St. Vincent

May the partisans of all doctrines in all countries unite and live in a common fellowship. For all alike profess mastery to…

— Ashoka

It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is…

— Archibald Alexander

So you are a vampire." "I most certainly am not." He looked annoyed. "That's such a common phrase, such a cliche, and…

— Margaret Stohl

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and…

— Mike Zimmer

The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living…

— Italo Calvino

Police have both extra constraints and extra permissions - on the one hand, they can't dodge involvement in social disorder as the…

— John Kleinig

Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and…

— John Taylor Gatto

Let's look at two things real quickly: the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the Sixties and the Arab Spring starting in…

— Bill Ayers

You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a…

— Douglas Coupland

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the present American laws concerning the taxation of the profits of corporations, the incomes of individuals, and inheritances had been introduced…

— Ludwig von Mises

Small-scale fisheries should not be favoured over large-scale operations ebcause of romantic notions of rugged small operators battling both the elements and…

— Daniel Pauly

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

— Sam Rayburn

“Common sense is strengthened by joy.”

— Anonymous

Adventure is the invitation to common people to become uncommon.

— Warren Miller

The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.

— William Blake

“Negotation is a point of interection of common interest.”

— Sukant Ratnakar

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship is probably the most common form of love.

— Steig Larsson

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson