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Quotes About Common

they should be hidden away in an attic along with the other relics too common to be called antiques and too broken to be of any further use. Yet I was inexplicably drawn to them, too.
~ Margaret Laurence
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
~ Norman O. Brown
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
~ H. L. Mencken
We are trying to persuade all the Iraqi opposition to come breathe freedom in Iraq and use liberated Kurdistan as a base for our common struggle.
~ Jalal Talabani
Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
There is no stronger bond of friendship than a common enemy.
~ Frank Frankfort Moore
Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.
~ H. L. Mencken
Science is simply common sense at its best - that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic
~ Thomas Henry Huxley
The strength of the nation lies in the well-being of the common man.
~ Unknown
Liberals are not unconcerned with economic liberty, but they have come to believe that the common good requires that social justice be given a higher priority than absolute economic freedom.
~ Unknown
Lo esencial no es el defecto individual, sino la voluntad colectiva.
~ Mario Benedetti
243.0 megacycles, known as Guard channel, which all airplanes with UHF kept tuned in for emergency use. The USAF called that frequency Navy Common. The Navy jocks said it was Air Force Common. The Marines could not have cared less.
~ Unknown
Pilots hated to stay on Guard and clutter up the air. The Navy called it Air Force common, the Air Force called it Navy common, and the Marines said they'd use any damn frequency they wanted, Guard included.
~ Unknown
In general terms, the loop else simply provides explicit syntax for a common coding scenario — it is a coding structure that lets us catch the "other" way out of a loop, without setting and checking flags or conditions.
~ Unknown
Wherever we've travelled in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are about 90% water.
~ David Letterman
Normal" is just a setting on your dryer.
~ Unknown
The future belongs to the common man with uncommon determination.
~ Baba Amte
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
~ John F. Kennedy
We must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today – climate change – into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future.
~ Ban Ki-moon
Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.
~ Joan Blades
A book for everyone concerned about our common future.
~ Unknown
The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
~ Gabrielle Union
Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals.
~ Jim DeMint
Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18.
~ Albert Einstein