Quotes About Common

Common sense often makes good law.

Education and training should work together to build common approaches to problems, not common solutions. Both should prepare you to know how to think in combat.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits; That common chances common men could bear; That when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating.

It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.

A habitation giddy and unsureHath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.

What these modern myths illustrate is this: Your generation isn't like the generation that shaped you, but it has much in common with the generation that shaped the generation that shaped you. Archetypes do not create archetypes like themselves; instead, they create the shadows of archetypes like themselves.

Energy efficiency is a tactic for slowing the process of overshooting environmental limits, but the urgent work facing our civilization is to use the time we gain to build richer, more resilient kinds of buildings that serve the common good.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.

There must be, not a balance of power but a community power; not organized rivalries but a organized, common peace.

A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason.

The law locks up the man or woman/ Who steals the goose from off the common/ But leaves the greater villain loose/ who steals the common from the goose'.

Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.

Having been tagged a "cult" by the government and the media, we became fair game, removed beyond the bounds of common sympathy.

It had the tangled floor plan common to all hospitals, seemingly designed by someone who believed in the healing power of watching confused visitors aimlessly wander around hallways.

Wong is the most common surname in the world . . . " " . . . John is the most common first name in the world." "That's right," I said. "And yet there's not a single person named John Wong. I looked it up." "You know, I work with a John Wong.

Celebrity is now so common that its inherent absurdity has rendered it inoffensive

Ignorance rises in our counity because people do not utlize their common knowledge to express their thoughts to others that can be considered fair and rational.

Ignorance rises in our community because people do not utlize their common knowledge to express their thoughts to others that can be considered fair and rational.

From the very fact the universe is on the whole orderly, in a manner comprehensible to our intellect, is evidence that we and it were fashioned by a common intelligence.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.