Common Quotes · Page 62

But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.

— Albert Camus

We are all, after all, just human beings, and most of us have a lot in common.

— Michael Yates

The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia,…

— Muhammad Ali

Under what rubric of common sense would you release violent criminals who are illegal back onto the streets in America? Why would…

— Rush Limbaugh

America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued…

— Ayn Rand

I believe that the 'dark night of the soul' is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued…

— Julia Cameron

We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world…

— John Searle

Any defense of common sense must allow that it is revisable.

— Ernest Sosa

The United States is in the midst of many spirited political debates about national priorities and public spending... However, we have found…

— John Gibbons

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

— Robertson Davies

Good grief. If we can’t laugh at ourselves, and at one another, in good spirit and without malice, then what fun can…

— George Takei

The laws against public nudity make no sense. The idea that Jerry Falwell can go topless while Cindy Crawford cannot is an…

— Peter McWilliams

Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn't change one person at a time. It changes when networks of relationships form among…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

In India there is a common saying that the way to Swaraj is through Mandalay.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A newspaper is an adviser who does not require to be sought, but who comes of his own accord, and talks to…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

— Ethan Zuckerman

The basic problem affecting the Pakistan today is human rights. Islamic fundamentalists have no roots among the common people and while they…

— Abdul Sattar Edhi

Today, now, it is time to move forward, a time to look for what is good in others, what is good in…

— Clarence Thomas

Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for…

— Henry A. Wallace

We did make use, from time to time, of candles, neckties, scarves, shoelaces, a little water-color paintbrush, her hairbrush, butter, whipped cream,…

— Spider Robinson

But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really,…

— David Hume

The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family - striving for a common…

— Kofi Annan

One of the reasons I wanted to leave my position at Common Cause and return to politics was to regain the freedom…

— Chellie Pingree

Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much…

— Epictetus

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

— William Kingdon Clifford