Common Quotes - page 4

But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It's not like you're sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it. (Claire Danes)
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. View quote
Thomas Edison
Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another. View quote
Milan Kundera
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common. View quote
John Locke
Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are cheques drawn on insufficient funds. View quote
René Daumal
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life. View quote
Lyndon B. Johnson
Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Pytheos made a mistake by not observing that the arts are each composed of two things, the actual work and the theory of it. One of these, the doing of the work, is proper to men trained in the individual subject, while the other the theory is common to all scholars. View quote
Vitruvius
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence. View quote
Sun Tzu
Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the fourth and the fifth, and with geometricians in the subject of vision; and in all other sciences many points, perhaps all, are common so far as the discussion of them is concerned. But the actual undertaking of works which are brought to perfection by the hand and its manipulation is the function of those who have been specially trained to deal with a single art. View quote
Vitruvius
To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success. (Henry J. Heinz)
Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50.00 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to. View quote
Dan Aykroyd
Philosophy is common sense with big words. View quote
James Madison
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back... View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. View quote
William James
The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation. View quote
Kim Campbell
Those who marry God can become domesticated too it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word ''Love'' means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and ''Ave Maria '' like ''dearest'' is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night. View quote
Graham Greene
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal. View quote
George Eliot
I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share. View quote
Mohamed ElBaradei
In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context. (Alfred Marshall)
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species. View quote
J. Philippe Rushton
Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense! View quote
George Carlin
Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. View quote
Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow