Quotes About Common

The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at.

I'm going to be so normal that when people look up normal in the dictionary, my name will be there.

common thread of boldness and optimism links businesspeople, from motel owners to superstar CEOs.

For example, I recently came to doubt my long-held impression that adultery is more common among politicians than among physicians or lawyers.

in the end what they all had in common was that these were not people. They were consumers: units for the consumption of goods and the payment of revenue. The crime here, the monstrous crime, was not that Bill, or Tracy, or the twins, Grandpa or Aunty Peg were going to die a horrible death, it was not that children were going to be robbed of their parents, or parents robbed of their children. The crime, the heinous, monstrous crime, was that the American economy was going to be crippled

In general, risk-averse behavior has been common among all groups that operated along the margins of survival.

It all came down to money - the great equalizer and common denominator.

Just because it's common sense,' he says of the process, 'doesn't mean it's common practice.

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.

Whatever its origin, a belief in spirits seems to have been common to all the nations of the ancient world who have left us any record of themselves. Ghosts began to walk early, and are walking still, in spite of the shrill cock-crow of wir haben ja aufgeklärt.

I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston.

The gesture was, to me, tremendously touching and all of a sudden I realised I had been wrong about these people. These were good people, common people; the salt of the earth; people whom I should count myself fortunate to know.

A government had better go to the very extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.

If Roosevelt were given another chance to lead the country, he intended to make the Republican Party once more the progressive party of Abraham Lincoln, to restore "the fellow feeling, mutual respect, the sense of common duties and common interests which arise when men take the trouble to understand one another, and to associate for a common object.

Lancelot Plummer had expected to undertake this survey with Adam, but had been foiled calmly in passing by Lymond. 'Ah, no. One aesthete and one philistine are what we require.' There could have been few philistines, thought Plummer acidly, as insistently common as Hislop.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

He felt a tug of sadness that someone who had seemed so shiningly alive within the small confines of a university community should have seemed to fade so much in the light of common day.

He's just this guy, you know?

Bay L. Prosser, söylenenlere bak?l?rsa s?radan bir insand?. Bir baÅŸka deyiÅŸle, maymundan gelme, karbon temelli ve iki ayakl? bir yaÅŸam biçimiydi.

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

Pardon, monsieur, for interrupting, but was that a common practice of his?" "No, it was not, but old Françoise has the common idea as regards the English—that they are mad, and liable to do the most unaccountable things at any moment!

Is there a common denominator? I wonder. You know, if there is, I should be inclined to say it is vanity.

Because, my friend, the more prosaic explanation is nearly always more probable.

the perfect example of Robinson's law. This states that human idiocy multiplies in compound ratio to the number of people gathered together in one place for a common purpose.