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

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

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.

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make...

Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.

No despotism, no privileged monopolies, no police societies, no divine rights of the emirs or feudal landlords or shady priests and sheikhs. All had the same equal footing—the rich and the poor, the noble and...

I got excited when I saw a midget, and then disappointed when I realized it was just a child. Those things are so common.

No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It’s rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.

There are common denominators that unite all members of al-Nahda: There is no one in al-Nahda who doubts about Islam There is no one in al-Nahda that believes in extremist views of Islam.

There is no UFO and also there is no alien, at least not in common mind nor reference.

They’re keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.

This is an industry that doesn’t have the common cold… It has cholera.

It’s just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not that common!

There are some common problems in the Balkans in the settlement of which Bulgaria should also participate.

A brick could be used to increase your annual sales. But before you can sell, you’ve got to buy. For just $9.99 I’ll show you how a common brick can transform you into an uncommon...

You can’t buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.

As J.R. I could get away with anything – bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of...

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.

Quitters don’t gain what they have started working on; waiters don’t start what they could have gained. What is common there is failure.

I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I’m doing. I don’t give a damn if half the audience walks out.

Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common.

If you want to find wilier race by common sense, then you have just narrowed your searching area.

We all share a common goal – we want our children to succeed.

LOVE is made up of a strong affection and patience whiles LUST is made up of a strong affection and impatience. Affection is common to them, but patience is not common.

Getting snail mail is one of my favorite indulgences, and I think receiving mail is actually a common joy.

God take what He would,” she said. And He did, and He did, and He did and then gave her Halle who gave her freedom when it didn’t mean a thing.

Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don’t think journalism clashes with my fiction; on the contrary, it helps enormously.

Me and her, we’re both hiding who we really are. This is a common practice. It’s called dating.

I was sure we would never see the adoption of the Euro. Countries giving up their currencies for a common tender was, it seemed to me, completely out of tune with currency being a carrier...

We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same...

Your crown is in the place that has the least crowd

While I don’t script and I don’t use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.

Resistance is common to the unusual.

When you’re a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.

Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this kind of virtue has not been outlived even today. A kind of sturdy...

Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.

Far be it from me to ever let my common sense get in the way of my stupidity. I say we press on.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.

Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.

Let us forget that we are Baptists, Methodists, Catholics, Presbyterians, or Free-thinkers, and remember only that we are men and women. After all, man and woman are the highest possible titles. All other names belittle...