Common famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.
-- A.C. Grayling -
Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!!!
-- Abdul Kalam -
Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.
-- Abdus Salam -
Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
-- Abraham Verghese -
By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.
-- Ace Frehley -
Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.
-- Adam Lambert -
Your birth may be common, But death must be history.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Economics and ethics have little in common.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ...
-- Agnes Repplier -
The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Our future is our sense of common destiny.
-- Ahmet Davutoglu -
Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Most Christians are satisfied living as common Christians, without an insatiable hunger for the deeper things of God.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
-- Akira Kurosawa -
We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.
-- Albert Camus -
With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.
-- Albert Einstein -
Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.
-- Albert J. Nock -
To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances; and ought to be under the direction of the same councils which are appointed to preside over the common defense.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
-- Alexander Pope -
I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.
-- Alexei Sayle -
Common sense is genius in homespun.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.
-- Alice Hegan Rice -
If you can be still enough and common enough, then it's really easy to be invisible.
-- Ally Carter -
I was imprisoned as an innocent person, it's common sense not to go back
-- Amanda Knox -
How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why do you drive out the fellow sharers of nature, and claim it all for yourselves? The earth was made for all, rich and poor, in common. Why do you rich claim it as your exclusive right?
-- Ambrose -
The common denominator is that we have guys who are really hungry to show what they can do.
-- Andre Iguodala -
Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche
-- Andrew Denton -
Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethical judgments.
-- Andrew Ferguson -
There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts - a sense of wonder.
-- Andrew Schneider -
The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.
-- Angela Merkel -
I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.
-- Angus Wilson -
We've got to understand that all disenfranchised people have something in common...The pursuit of justice really is about equality for everyone.
-- Anita Hill -
Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.
-- Ann Beattie -
Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.
-- Anna Lindh -
...When I look back on my life's greatest traumas...I see that each one has something in common. No matter how life-shattering they felt at the time, there was an end to them.
-- Anna Maxted -
A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.
-- Anne Northup -
When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.
-- Antisthenes -
It is no common mortal who speaks to us in this music.
-- Anton Bruckner -
Common sense is the folklore of philosophy.
-- Antonio Gramsci -
A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.
-- Aristotle -
The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice.
-- Aristotle -
One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.
-- Aristotle -
Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.
-- Aristotle -
I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
One should use common words to say uncommon things
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
When aristocrats pretend they're common people -- they get common!
-- August Strindberg -
Common integration is only the memory of differentiation...
-- Augustus De Morgan -
Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human failings.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.
-- Ayn Rand -
For any of us to come to the understanding that we are common and unlearned is the accomplishment of a lifetime.
-- Baal Shem Tov -
The future belongs to the common man with uncommon determination.
-- Baba Amte -
A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
-- Bainbridge Colby -
Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
The US and Australia have a lot in common. One of the things we have in common is we produce a lot of carbon.
-- Barack Obama -
In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
-- Barbara Amiel -
All addictions have one thing in common - they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.
-- Barbara De Angelis -
A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
-- Barbara Jordan -
If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.
-- Barbara Tuchman -
Evolution answers some questions but reveals many more questions. Some of these questions at this stage appear to be unanswerable in the light of present scientific knowledge. In common parlance: `The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
-- Barry Price -
Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.
-- Barry Zito -
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
-- Ben Okri -
We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.
-- Benjamin Carson -
Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.
-- Benjamin Spock -
Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.
-- Benjamin Spock -
Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods.
-- Benjamin Stillingfleet -
The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.
-- Bernard Crick -
Valor is common but great souls are rare.
-- Bernard-Joseph Saurin -
Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.
-- Beth Gibbons -
I'm a common woman sharing common problems seeking common solutions on a journey with an uncommon Savior.
-- Beth Moore -
You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.
-- Bill Murray -
I've observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure—and their ability to overcome it.
-- Bill Walsh -
Just because you're gay, I won't turn you away. If you stick around, I'm sure we can find some common ground.
-- Billy Bragg -
Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.
-- Billy Gibbons -
Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common.
-- Bion of Borysthenes -
The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.
-- Blaise Pascal -
With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.
-- Bob Seger -
By comparing the human and chimp genomes, we can see the process of evolution clearly in the changes (in DNA) since we diverged from our common ancestor.
-- Bob Waterston -
We must stop concentrating on our differences and look for what we have in common.
-- Bonnie L. Oscarson -
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
-- Booker T. Washington -
We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
-- Booker T. Washington -
The scarily brilliant Romantic poet and visionary William Blake dared to say what many of us have perhaps thought but kept to ourselves: “A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.
-- Brian D. McLaren -
I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_
-- Brian H. Hook -
Certainly, because the computer and computer language was still not as common as it is today. That's one of the reasons I believe Tron wasn't as popular back then as it is today.
-- Bruce Boxleitner -
Gadfangled girl things, always robbed me of my common sense.
-- Bruce Coville -
The common person fears to think beyond the common.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.
-- C. S. Lewis -
I abhor, too, the roaming lover, nor do I drink from every well; I loathe all things in common
-- Callimachus -
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
-- Calvin Coolidge
