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.

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...

The most confounding thing of all is that we still haven’t identified the cause of 20% to 30% of adult common colds.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

From the first day we have been fighting the wrong enemy; our common enemy is religion which dictates upon us division and partition.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

That happens all the time. That’s basically all I hear. The most common criticism I get is that I’m being manipulated and you shouldn’t use children in political ways, because that is abuse, and I...

In Italy we have not a Common law legal system, we have a stupid one instead!

When I want to kick it up, I like to add hardwood chips or chunks to the grill; it adds bold smoky flavors. The most common woods are hickory and mesquite, but you can find...

I’ve found that the common humanity of people is the most relatable thing, and even if your stories are very specific about a different place, if you have a relatable core of humanity, people will...

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people.

We share something in common with the fabric of the whole universe that connects us.

I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to occupy, and then appeal to the best nature of people on that common ground.

Not all black people are loud, ghetto, and ignorant, Some of them act like they got some common sense.

So, if you look at what’s common among some of the companies I have, including the Four Seasons, NewsCorp, George V, the Plaza, these are all irreplaceable brands in their own fields.

Take the unpopular route. Use the road no one travels by. Think of doing what is uncommon but remarkable. You have absolutely nobody to overtake you on the empty road!

One common way of judging whether housing’s price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing prices to rents. This is analogous to the ratio of prices to dividends...

Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil.

I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

It’s never the differences between people that surprise us. It’s the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.

Common folk didn’t have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.

Any process that fails the Common Sense Test, cannot pass a Biblical Test. Those who have more should share with those who have none or less; not the other way round. Prosperity Gospel is antichrist.

Hypnotism is trespass into the territory of another’s consciousness. Its temporary phenomena have nothing in common with the miracles performed by men of divine realization.

Ideas are universal, the names and titles we give them are not.

Throughout the world what remains of the vast public spaces are now only the stuff of legends: Robin Hood’s forest, the Great Plains of the Amerindians, the steppes of the nomadic tribes, and so forth…...

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

Amanda olhou para ele – Tens de compreender que já não sou a rapariga que era dantes. Sou casada e sou mãe e, tal como toda a gente, não sou perfeita. Debato-me com as escolhas...

It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House.

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it’s incumbent upon us to.

The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you’re doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you’ve learned it.

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.