Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history.
~By Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ~
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
~By William Gilbert ~
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent.
~By Talib Kweli ~
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
~By Harriet Beecher Stowe ~
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
~By Booker T. Washington ~
A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.
~By Frederick William Robertson ~
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.
~By Ken Hill ~
Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~
The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
~By Clarence Darrow ~
There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.
~By Jeanette Rankin ~
That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.
~By Jeff Miller ~
I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.
~By Theodore Bikel ~
If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.
~By Richard Eyre ~
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
~By Albert J. Nock ~
My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop.
~By Pauline Hanson ~
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
~By Gore Vidal ~
In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
~By Garrett Hardin ~
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
~By Confucius ~
A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper.
~By John Pym ~
Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
~By Joseph Addison ~
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings.
~By Julius Wellhausen ~
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 ~
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 ~
How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?
~By Donald Justice ~
It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.
~By Norman Ralph Augustine ~
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 ~
This administration affects the everyday life of the common person.
~By Al Jourgensen ~
This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.
~By Bob Ney ~
The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men.
~By Michael Douglas ~
Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.
~By Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ~
It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.
~By Tony Snow ~
Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.
~By Charles Perrault ~
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.
~By Daryl Hannah ~
I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.
~By Barney Frank ~
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.
~By John Locke ~
The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children.
~By Herb Kohl ~
Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
~By Harold Washington ~
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
~By Christopher Hampton ~
The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
Terrorists oppose nations such as the United States and Australia not because of what we have done but because of who we are and because of the values that we hold in common.
~By John Howard ~
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 ~
A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.
~By Blanche Lincoln ~
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
~By Mark Twain ~
Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.
~By Sarah Palin ~
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
~By F. L. Lucas ~
Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.
~By Tom G. Palmer ~
A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point.
~By Sean Bean ~
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 ~
I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.
~By David Antin ~
Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.
~By Gloria Swanson ~
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
~By Charles Dickens ~
AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and imagine our world fall into pieces because we refuse to share and put in the common vestiges of our civilizations.
~By Sarah Polley ~
The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins in the afternoon, there is always an intermission of an hour or two for supper. The preliminary painting and dressing is usually the work of about two hours.
~By James Mooney ~
Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point.
~By Karl Lehmann ~
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
~By Walter Legge ~
Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.
~By William Graham Sumner ~
Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.
~By Ken Livingstone ~
There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
~By John Fowles ~
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
~By Plato ~
The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.
~By Mason Cooley ~
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
~By Samuel Butler ~
And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.
~By Robert Fripp ~
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
~By An Wang ~
There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.
~By Constance Baker Motley ~
In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.
~By Niklaus Wirth ~
But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.
~By Thomas Reid ~
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
~By Samuel Butler ~
The Commonwealth of Kentucky has a judicial system, and this system needs a lot of repair. Therefore, there is no need for Kentucky to start building another judicial system within the system, that we already have.
~By Sonny Landham ~
Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
~By George Washington ~
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
~By Victoria Woodhull ~
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
~By Stephen Jay Gould ~
In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.
~By William Robertson Smith ~
Common sense is genius in homespun.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
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 ~
Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself.
~By George G. Simpson ~
Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners.
~By Dennis Ross ~
Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
~By Margaret Deland ~
I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
~By Vin Diesel ~
We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.
~By Alfred de Vigny ~
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.
~By Kofi Annan ~
We must strive to encourage East and West not only to move towards each other but also to encourage them to find a new philosophy, a philosophy which will serve as a tool determining the future of Planet Earth - our common and only shelter.
~By Nursultan Nazarbayev ~
A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
~By Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ~
Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo.
~By Zach Wamp ~
The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
~By E. B. White ~
The common person fears to think beyond the common.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
~By John Keats ~
A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.
~By Robert Graves ~
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
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