Common Quotes · Page 18

A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

— Bainbridge Colby

There is no 'European people' united by common mores.

— George Will

Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

— Oscar Wilde

Conservative coaches have one thing in common; they are unemployed.

— Chuck Knox

“Common sense isn't as common as its name implies”

— Douglas Thompson

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

— Joyce Meyer

Nobody wants to be called common people, especially common people.

— Will Rogers

We share a common enemy, but does that make us friends?

— Veronica Roth

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via…

— Ingmar Bergman

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

— Isabel Allende

Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.

— Jay-Z

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

— William Ralph Inge

Pneumococcus is a fairly common cause of pneumonia and [raises the] risk of death in older adults.

— Paul A. Offit

The art of detection is finding a common denominator for the fractions of a case.

— Elsa Barker

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

— William Hague

What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's…

— Steven Pressfield

“Shoving the ends at him, I headed for the common. It wasn't far away: a green, tree-lined oasis, brightened with many seasonal…

— Elizabeth Young

It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community…

— Albert Einstein

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…

— Harrison Ford

There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden,…

— Margaret Atwood

The Lord ate from a common bowl, and asked the disciples to sit on the grass. He washed their feet, with a…

— Clement of Alexandria

A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than…

— Glenn Greenwald

A two-speed Europe will not be a strong Europe. The idea of making decisions and policies in a narrow circle, disregarding smaller…

— Georgi Parvanov

Cancer is like the common cold; there are so many different types. In the future we'll still have cancer, but we'll detect…

— Michio Kaku

We created a whole lot of millionaires to boot. Businesses did just fine. And you know there are plenty of patriotic, successful…

— Barack Obama

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think we'll have a bigger conversation first within the Republican Party, then with the American people about what's the proper role…

— Bobby Jindal

A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Christian…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

When I was a child, I was reading books filled with people different from me, all French, all foreigners. There was a…

— Laila Lalami

Pain is the most individualized thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that…

— Edith Hamilton

We humans have a wide range of abilities that help us perceive and analyze mathematical content. We perceive abstract notions not just…

— William Thurston

For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which…

— H. L. Mencken

Common sense, is not all that common.

— Andy Frisbie

Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.

— Blaise Pascal

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

— Bryant H. McGill

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

— Naguib Mahfouz

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

— Orison Swett Marden

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche

— Andrew Denton

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

— Thomas Jefferson

Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.

— Herman Melville