A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any...

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...

Time is ubiquitous in our lives and is so common that we seldom even think about it.

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 common among the Indians of the Missouri.

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

By recycling pre-existing material, Shakespeare seemed to endorse a view common in his time, which has become even more entrenched in the 400 years since: that all the truly essential stories are already in the...

Common people are often enough; that is why God made so many of them. Your job is to be— EXTRAORDINARY.

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

Come out with your unique signal and don’t always be compelled to go the common way. That is called innovation.

Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

It’s not a common thing for a Southern white family to go out and seek their black cousins.

Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms.

The most common place I get stopped by fans is the ladies’.

Once social media was introduced, it enabled a new way for people, particularly the younger generation, to connect with one another, based on common interests, goals and even values.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot – which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong’s landing,...

I’ve been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What do the circumstances of life matter if your dreams make you lord paramount...

People think I have the benefit of a public school education. I have this suave and debonair label, but really, I’m as common as muck.

Never keep long and be waiting. Waiters and quitters have just a slight difference but a common end.

China is a major power in the Pacific and I think we are dealing with some common threats in that region: the whole issue of Korea and the stability of Korea, the whole issue of...

Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike.

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

I felt like a misfit at school, and I think that’s quite common.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

There are many forms of writing that are common, but also very formulaic, such as annual reports or economic studies. In those areas, people would probably be relieved not to have to write those kinds...

Virtues are common, but the virtuous are very few. This is because ordinarily, people know but do not apply what they know. To break the culture, look for more information; learn more and apply more....

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.

The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents.

Cats cant speak, that’s common sense.-Yoruichi

I find that when I’m struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look...

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.

Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet.

If we have a common currency, the main regulator for policy in the country is the fiscal policy.

So there’s always been this clash between what is the public good – that which belongs to all of us in common – and what can be exploited for a private interest.

We are distressed by the unilateral actions of those provinces that are clearly determined to redefine what our common faith was once.

One of the most common areas where we fail is when we begin to think that genetic make-up of a person determines how far he can lead”. Leadership is learnt and practiced!

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

There’s a weird logic that explains a common truth.

I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.

Stays focused and channel your little efforts through a common canal and you will marvel at the amount of pressure you create in that canal.

If more people would try and reach up instead of going to the lowest common denominator, I think we’d be a lot better off.

I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.

I have confidence in people’s basic common sense.