Quotes About Common

I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense.

The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.

the greatest forces that can be brought into the field of revolutions, are reason and common interest. Where these can have the opportunity of acting, opposition dies with fear, or crumbles away by conviction.

If there are certain principles, as I think there are, which the' constitution of our nature leads us to believe, and which we are under a necessity to take for granted in the common concerns of life,' without being able to give a reason for them; these are what we call the principles of common sense; and what is manifestly contrary to them, is what we call absurd.

I'm an absolutely normal guy.

I live a pretty normal life.

I want to live like a normal life.

I'm just a normal person.

I'm really just a normal person.

In my real life I'm a very normal person.

In Italy, there are a lot of Coppolas - it's like being called Jones. No one really notices.

What all emotions have in common, and what distinguishes them from bodily appetites, is a focus on an object and a view of that object as salient for one's life.

Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.

A lot of the things I do are obvious things that for some reason are not done. I could never figure this out. Why don't people do the obvious?

What makes the marvellous is its peculiar way of being ordinary; what makes the ordinary is its peculiar way of being marvellous.

As the early 20th century writer Orison Swett Marden once said, "Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.

readers tend to like a character who is at least superficially like themselves. But they quickly lose interest unless this particular character is somehow out of the ordinary. The character may wear the mask of the common man, but underneath his true face must always be the face of the hero.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

These are small things; I am coming to things of greater importance, but which seem smaller, because they are more common.' — Bernanrd of of Clairvaux

All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.

All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.