Common Quotes

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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. — Hannah Arendt
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create… — Aristotle
Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester. — Karen Armstrong
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are… — William Henry Ashley
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make… — Wystan Hugh Auden
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain. — Saint Augustine
The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only… — Sri Aurobindo
Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to… — Dan Aykroyd
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. — Walter Bagehot
I don't think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett's nuts! Just because he's a freaking billionaire doesn't mean he has common… — Stephen Baldwin
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. — Douglas Adams
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung. — Amelia Barr
Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment. — Joe Barton
I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations. — Joe Barton
We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams. — Charles Baudelaire
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious. — Charles Baudelaire
I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are… — Scott Adams

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