Commonplace Quotes

249 Commonplace quotes by 221 unique authors

The man who puts life into an idea is acclaimed a genius, because he does the right thing at the right time. Therein lies the… — Douglas Fairbanks
Like many physical diseases, anti-Semitism is highly infectious, and can become endemic in certain localities and societies. Though a disease of the mind, it is… — Paul Johnson
Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work. — Richard Attias
I have found in experiments, people become used to the robots. The less startling they become, the more commonplace they get. If these robots do… — David Hanson
The overwhelming bulk of the cosmos is deathly quiet. But here and there - on worlds where matter is thick and conditions are right -… — Seth Shostak
Lying, stealing, and cheating are commonplace. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers and heavily-armed police… — Mike Crapo
I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go back… — John Burdett
Critics seem to forget that every love story is different - that there is uniqueness in even the most commonplace of matches. — Sarah MacLean
If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance… — Richard Eyre
One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones. — Saint Ignatius
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame… — Mark Twain
For nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what is outside, but what is inside that counts — Aladdin
I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an… — Philip Levine
It is by no means improbable that some future textbook, for the use of generations yet unborn, will contain a question something like this: What… — Unknown Author
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side,… — Willa Sibert Cather
You would not tolerate for one moment the conduct in an individual that is commonplace in the acts of some nations. You would lock up… — L. Ron Hubbard
When a man's talk is commonplace and his writings uncommon, it means that his talent lies in the place from which he borrows it, and… — Michel De Montaigne
God still draws near to us in the ordinary, commonplace, everyday experiences and places...He comes in surprising ways. — Unknown Author
There is no event so commonplace but that God is present within it, always hiddenly, always leaving you room to recognize Him or not recognize… — Frederick Buechner
Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace. — Dr Robert H Goddard
Here was a man who now for the first time found himself looking into the eyes of death--who was passing through one of those rare… — GEORGE ELIOT
Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius inan essentially common personis detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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