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.

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.