That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.
~By Richard Schickel ~
I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.
~By Theodore Bikel ~
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
Anyone can use these sites - companies and colleges, teachers and students, young and old all make use of networking sites to connect with people electronically to share pictures, information, course work, and common interests.
~By Mike Fitzpatrick ~
The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
~By Charles Lamb ~
Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump.
~By Bob Ney ~
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
~By Dawn French ~
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
~By Confucius ~
Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
~By Dorothy Day ~
I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.
~By Stephen R. Donaldson ~
A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.
~By Franz Liszt ~
We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
We all share a common goal - we want our children to succeed.
~By Bob Taft ~
I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient.
~By Kristi Noem ~
We sincerely hope that south Asian countries will respect and live in amity with each other, and achieve common development, and that south Asia will enjoy peace, stability and prosperity.
~By Li Peng ~
Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
~By Margaret Deland ~
I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries.
~By Pete Coors ~
Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
~By William Osler ~
There are many domestic issues that give us a lot of common ground to work on. Health, education and immigration are among the areas where we share mutual goals and aspirations. There are also many values that we share as a communities.
~By Robert Menendez ~
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.
~By Harry Houdini ~
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
~By Alexander Pope ~
We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.
~By Carl Levin ~
In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions.
~By Joe Bob Briggs ~
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of local government in the states of the union in regard to non-federal affairs at the local level.
~By Dick Thornburgh ~
I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles.
~By Ric Keller ~
Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and has the potential to become an inexpensive source of energy for neighborhoods, light and heavy duty vehicles, and industry.
~By Charlie Dent ~
People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.
~By Vaclav Klaus ~
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.
~By Angelina Jolie ~
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
~By Ellen Wilkinson ~
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly.
~By Dorothy Denning ~
Common sense is calculation applied to life.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.
~By Gene Tierney ~
It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.
~By George Soros ~
The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents.
~By Simon Newcomb ~
When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
~By Wayne Newton ~
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
~By Carl Clinton Van Doren ~
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
~By Walt Whitman ~
I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
~By Vince McMahon ~
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
~By Satchel Paige ~
I have seen that the American Dream is a reality - and I would love to feel the British Dream is also a reality. To enable that, we have to bring back some common sense and encourage family values, a proper sense of justice and make people believe they have a decent chance to build a business or career for themselves. I see this moment as a fantastic opportunity to restore this, because I believe Britain Has Talent.
~By Simon Cowell ~
We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.
~By Michael F. Easley ~
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
Poetry transforms and redeems the common, the hurtful, the humiliating.
~By Susan Montez ~
All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
~By Barbara Walters ~
Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
~By Jonathan Mayhew ~
Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point.
~By Karl Lehmann ~
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
~By George Santayana ~
Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.
~By Thales ~
It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
~By Thomas Browne ~
Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.
~By Andrew Denton ~
Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state.
~By Jeb Bush ~
A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.
~By Anne Northup ~
Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
~By Carl Andre ~
Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.
~By Anthony Weiner ~
Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.
~By Tony Campolo ~
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
~By William Kingdon Clifford ~
I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people.
~By Alva Myrdal ~
I listened to the rock music of that time, but as you know and can easily hear: my music of that era had nothing to do with the common music of this era. I was experimenting, I was searching for something new.
~By Klaus Schulze ~
These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness.
~By Dave Sim ~
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.
~By Diane Abbott ~
We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.
~By David Amram ~
It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
~By Heinrich Heine ~
I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.
~By Bubba Sparxxx ~
If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go.
~By Robert Mugabe ~
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
~By Thomas Paine ~
Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.
~By Abdus Salam ~
We all have a common goal, and we know it's all for our future good.
~By Marta Kristen ~
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
~By George Berkeley ~
Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.
~By Cat Stevens ~
We are distressed by the unilateral actions of those provinces that are clearly determined to redefine what our common faith was once.
~By Peter Akinola ~
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right.
~By Richard Perle ~
Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
~By Ellis Peters ~
My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes.
~By Alton Brown ~
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
Life is lived in common, but not in community.
~By Michael Harrington ~
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
~By Josh Billings ~
I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.
~By Michael King ~
The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords.
~By Christopher Gadsden ~
Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.
~By Rene Daumal ~
The other thing is that doctors test only the most common estrogen level. There are three kinds of estrogen in a woman but they don't test the other two because they are so rare; mine was the third kind of estrogen.
~By Marie Osmond ~
Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn't sit half way through it. The Pulitzer is a common prize that means very little.
~By Richard Harris ~
Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.
~By Albert Einstein ~
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
~By Anne Sullivan Macy ~
I play a guy who believes he's a king. He's the most common man in the world; in fact his family, like his suits, are just make-up. It's about dysfunctional people and dysfunctional relationships.
~By James Caan ~
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
~By William Arthur Ward ~
Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
~By John Masefield ~
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