Commonly Quotes

412 quotes by 283 authors

Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations… — Criss Jami
Think of it: the lowest common denominator in being digital is not your operating system, modem, or model of computer. It's a tiny piece of… — Nicholas Negroponte
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches' pockets. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated… — Stephen Fry
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it… — William E. Gladstone
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. — Thomas Hobbes
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree. — Elbert Hubbard
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a… — Samuel Johnson
Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. — Samuel Johnson
The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery. — Samuel Johnson
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an… — Soren Kierkegaard
Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic… — Jon Landau
The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else. — Martin Luther
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so… — Maxwell Maltz
Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted… — Camille Paglia
Language mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language. — Steven Pinker
Regardless of its causes, thoughtlessly blaming the present is a weakness which, even if it is never outlawed, ought to be resisted. Though commonly flaunted… — Steven Pinker
Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and… — Tariq Ramadan

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