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Quotes About Common

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.
~ Oscar Wilde
I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
~ Oscar Wilde
The secret seems to be the only way to become mysterious and wonderful modern life. The commonest thing gets a touch fascinating when done on the sly.
~ Oscar Wilde
thing we ask a servant for is a testimonial to honesty, sobriety and industry; for we soon find out that these are the scarce things, and that geniuses and clever people are as common as rats.
~ Oscar Wilde
The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort -- happiness. He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world history, for it contains nothing of the sort. The best that history has created is great suffering.
~ Oswald Spengler
but the unsensational doings of a quite commonplace young
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I learned about life from life itself, love I learned in a single kiss and could teach no one anything except that I have lived with something in common among men, when fighting with them, when saying all their say in my song. Pablo Neruda- Ode to the Book
~ Pablo Neruda
A common stone locks within itself the secret of stupendous atomic energy; even so, a mortal is yet a powerhouse of divinity.
~ Paramhansa Yogananda
Parisians and polar icecaps have a lot in common except that polar icecaps are warmer to strangers.
~ Pat Conroy
Voyagers can remove the masks and those sinuous, intricate disguises we wear at home in the dangerous equilibrium of our common lives.
~ Pat Conroy
La riqueza es algo común y corriente, la sabiduría en cambio rara.
~ Dan Brown
When he did, people across the world would realize that the teachings of all religions did indeed have one thing in common. They were all dead wrong.
~ Dan Brown
Kirsch planned to go public with this presentation in a stunning, meticulously choreographed event. When he did, people across the world would realize that the teachings of all religions did indeed have one thing in common. They were all dead wrong.
~ Dan Brown
It is quite common for humans to sentimentalize their relationships with synthetic intelligences
~ Dan Brown
a comment with the idle arrogance common of such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.
~ Dan Simmons
Yet at the end of the day, it is still a car, and the experience is largely the same.
~ Daniel Yergin
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
~ Brian Tracy
One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.
~ Matthew Arnold
Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.
~ Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Jesus Christ: A common exclamation indicating surprise, disgust, anger or bewilderment.
~ Chaz Bufe
Perhaps, for the common people a rewarding and avenging God is necessary. Bayle had asked, If a society of atheists could subsist? Voltaire answers, Yes, if they are also philosophers. But men are seldom philosophers.
~ Will Durant
If you got something outside the common run that's got to be done and cant wait, dont waste your time on the menfolks; they works on what your uncle calls the rules and the cases. Get the womens and the children at it; they works on the circumstances.
~ William Faulkner
Why were these giant projects so relatively common in Europe? He'd grown up with the unquestioned assumption that America was the home of heroic infrastructure, but was it, now? He didn't think so. How did they pay for these things here? Taxes?
~ William Gibson
A sailor? A common sailor? A common ordinary seaman bests the great Inigo Montoya with the sword? In-con-ceiv-a-ble. He must be the Dread Pirate Roberts. Otherwise it makes no sense.
~ William Goldman