Quotes About Common

Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.

Stereotypes work to help divide women from recognizing their common interests.

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.

Regardless of what the future holds, intelligent investment in common stocks offer a solid route for a reasonable return on investment going forward.

Actually, diamonds are a very common stone. I prefer emeralds.

The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media is definitely trying to stoop down to that level. Everyone is stooping to the lowest common denominator.

There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To me it does not matter, as long as it's good. I like both kinds. Although the common reader seems to prefer the first, which is to be expected, and who would blame her?

For most of human history, the proliferation of the individual likeness was the sole prerogative of the illustrious, whether it was he face of the emperor on a Roman coin or the face of Garbo on the silver screen. The commercialization of photography may have broadened access to portraiture somewhat, but apart from wanted posters, the image of most common people would never be widely propagated.

Cuál es el peor consejo que oyes dar a menudo?

Wine is a grocery, not a luxury.

What is truth?" Sometimes people ask this question because they wish to do nothing. Generic cynicism makes us feel hip and alternative even as we slip along with our fellow citizens into a morass of indifference. It is your ability to discern facts that makes you an individual, and our collective trust in common knowledge that makes us a society.

The politics of the greater evil was a common creation at a time of chaos. —

So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.

The best known evil is the most tolerable.

Since Sissy had been born months before the subject of Not Having Any More Children had been brought up, there had been a couple of times and one entire Network meeting that had been dedicated to it. The husbands were all invited, since they had something to do with it. It was common, revolutionary courtesy.

History, that is, the unconscious, common, swarm life of mankind uses every moment of the life of kings as an instrument for its own ends

Let him who elevates himself above humanity say, if he pleases, I never will compromise; but, let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.

Here I see one pattern common to all the winners. The one mechanical practice they all have in common is this: They acquire trust by giving trust.

If you're going to make a lot of films about a particular group of animals, you might as well pick one that's fairly common. And octopus are: they live in all the oceans. They also live deep. And I can't say octopus are responsible for my really strong interest in getting in subs and going deep, but whatever the case, I like that.

There's this common sense idea that in order to appeal to the biggest number of people, you have to write something very general, but my experience is the more specific you make something, the more people respond to it, in a very odd way.

You see as mayors and local officials our jobs are designed so we have more in common with our constituents than Washington politicians can ever have.

Indeed, in many respects, she was quite English, and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

You know how I love secrecy. It is the only thing that can make modern life wonderful or mysterious to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.