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Quotes About Common

Making money is a common sense. It's not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.
~ Willard Van Orman Quine
A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.
~ Robert Graves
Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.
~ Friedrich Schiller
As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion... Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science, and its impact on a person's livelihood is the common denominator.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.
~ Thomas Jefferson
An action made by an unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common thought and interpretation.
~ Even Engesland
His appearance projected danger and reinforced the common knowledge that one did not want to piss off a demon, especially this one.
~ Kiersten Fay, Demon Possession
An action made by a unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common though and interpretation.
~ Even Engesland
Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?
~ Victor Hugo
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
~ Abraham Lincoln
good things have banal ingredients.
~ Alain de Botton
Books did not defer. All readers were equal and this took her back to the beginning of her life. As a girl, one of her greatest thrills had been on VE night when she and her sister had slipped out of the gates and mingled unrecognised with the crowds. There was something of that, she felt, to reading. It was anonymous; it was shared; it was common. And she who had led a life apart now found that she craved it. Here in these pages and between these covers she could go unrecognised.
~ Alan Bennett
Kitty, since I am going to be in town for a month or two, I wonder if you might be interested in visiting me. We certainly found several common interests at Pemberley, and I would love to see your finished watercolors of the Peaks." Kitty
~ Don Miller
Mark Bevir argues, "Democracy now seems less a means of expressing a common good and more a contest among factions or classes.
~ Donald J. Savoie
I believe that I have such a vanilla life.
~ Jen Lancaster
In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.
~ Plutarch
Other intelligent life-forms will differ greatly in appearance - they may resemble the creature in E.T. or startle us with their beauty - but life itself is common, I'm certain.
~ Frank Drake
One of the key insights of the systems approach has been the realization that the network is a pattern that is common to all life. Wherever we see life, we see networks.
~ Fritjof Capra
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
~ Sam Shepard
Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.
~ Michael Sandel
The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.
~ Owen Feltham