Common Quotes · Page 42

The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

— Jean de la Bruyere

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

— Samuel Butler

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

— Paul Simon

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.

— Horace Walpole

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

Q: What do Jesus and Nicole Brown Simpson have in common? A: They were both killed by the Joooooooose.

— Helen Thomas

Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

And now, with the aid of this common beer glass, I shall play my fifty guinea solo.

— Kenny Baker

For me, my awkward phase corresponded to an interest in rock n' roll. From experience, I'm guessing an insecure childhood is probably…

— The Edge

If we use these common standards as the foundation for better schools, we can give all kids a robust curriculum taught by…

— Randi Weingarten

Fear hath the common fault of a justice of peace, and is apt to conclude hastily from every slight circumstance, without examining…

— Henry Fielding

And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there…

— Robert Fripp

It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Not a single illegal immigrant should or need enter the United States, not one. Contrary to the common wisdom, the borders are…

— Mark Helprin

This country [the Philippines] is like a pyramid, like a tower. It is made up of millions of stones... . And the…

— Ramon Magsaysay

Strokes are categorized as either bleeding into the brain or a blockage in blood supply, known as an ischemic stroke. The latter…

— David Perlmutter

Many quantum physics are realizing or hypothesizing that consciousness is not a byproduct of evolution as has been suggested. Or for that…

— Deepak Chopra

We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the…

— Winston Churchill

There was nothing the matter with me that was not also the matter with everyone else. I was not as interesting as…

— J. D. Daniels

It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small…

— Alice Walker

It's common to think things will never happen where you are-never in Cambridge, never in New York, never in Seattle-that sort of…

— Mike Daisey

My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common…

— Dalai Lama

Economy denotes the the proper management of materials and of site, as well as a thrifty balancing of cost and common sense…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

All progressive thought has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain ... Hitler, because in…

— George Orwell

You can't be common, the common man goes nowhere; you have to be uncommon

— Herb Brooks

It's time to change the conversation about nature to focus on what we all have in common: our shared humanity.

— Harrison Ford

What is sure is that the satellite view of our world and its evolution is now a common reality.

— Olivier Theyskens

It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long…

— Eugenie Clark

“There is no UFO and also there is no alien, at least not in common mind nor reference.”

— Toba Beta

That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it

— Anonymous

The Church alone, being the Bride of Christ and having all things in common with her Divine Spouse, is the depository of…

— Pope Pius X

Like all school students, I think I did a play in my school. The common things, I would say. Nothing really exceptional.

— Isabelle Huppert

Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

— Carolyn Wells

It is common to forget a man and slight him if his good will cannot help you.

— Plautus

Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster…

— Edmund White

The thing the Buddhists and the Sufis have in common is a belief that religious certainties are destructive.

— Luke Rhinehart

I love finding common ground with people that didn't grow up near me or have the same life as me.

— Amelia Dimoldenberg

God is not looking for men of great faith, He is looking for common men to trust His great faithfulness.

— Hudson Taylor

In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.

— David Liss

We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become…

— William Hazlitt