Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
~By John Masefield ~
Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.
~By Robert Lynd ~
Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.
~By Gary Burton ~
Multi- polarisation has become an inevitable trend in the process of shaping a global political pattern and has been widely welcomed by the international community as it reflects the common interests and aspiration of the overwhelming majority of countries.
~By Li Peng ~
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
~By Rene Descartes ~
It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.
~By Tony Snow ~
The common person fears to think beyond the common.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
~By Olivia Wilde ~
The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.
~By H. P. Blavatsky ~
My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
~By Katharine Hepburn ~
If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.
~By Mark Foley ~
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 the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it.
~By Angelina Grimke ~
We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax.
~By Otto Schily ~
We have a close, unshakable bond between the United States and Israel, and between the American and Israeli people. We share common values and a commitment to a democratic future for the world, and we are both committed to a two-state solution. But that doesn't mean that we're going to agree.
~By Hillary Clinton ~
Space is going to be commonplace.
~By Christa McAuliffe ~
And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
~By Aesop ~
Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.
~By Jean Henri Fabre ~
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
~By Samuel Butler ~
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
~By James F. Cooper ~
Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
~By W. H. Auden ~
Common sense is the genius of humanity.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
~By Julian Casablancas ~
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 ~
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 ~
This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.
~By Omar Sharif ~
Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
~By Harold Washington ~
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.
~By Joan Blades ~
I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.
~By George Mason ~
We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law.
~By Jose Serrano ~
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
~By Sun Tzu ~
I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.
~By Beth Gibbons ~
The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.
~By Andy Stern ~
A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.
~By Marion Zimmer Bradley ~
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 ~
Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.
~By Sonny Perdue ~
Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
~By Milan Kundera ~
A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
~By Aphra Behn ~
The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be.
~By Walter Ulbricht ~
The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest.
~By Simon Conway Morris ~
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
~By Joseph Addison ~
Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
~By Alphonse de Lamartine ~
Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
~By Hillary Clinton ~
God must hate common people, because he made them so common.
~By Philip Wylie ~
I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of the US, Japan and the international community.
~By Chen Shui-bian ~
Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?
~By Betty Buckley ~
The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland.
~By James Larkin ~
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.
~By John Locke ~
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 ~
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
~By George Eliot ~
In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
~By Arthur Helps ~
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
I'm a common-sense kind of guy.
~By Robert M. Parker, Jr. ~
Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
~By Audre Lorde ~
Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.
~By John Tillotson ~
They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors.
~By Jack Cade ~
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
~By Robertson Davies ~
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
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 and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
~By William James ~
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.
~By David Antin ~
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 ~
Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
~By Harold Wilson ~
Some commoners are less common than others.
~By Alan Hamilton ~
The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have common interest and are in the position to support each other in their anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle. As long as Africa and Latin America are not free.
~By Kim Il Sung ~
I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.
~By J. L. Austin ~
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
~By Samuel Fuller ~
I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.
~By Sabrina Lloyd ~
I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
~By Christopher Fry ~
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
~By Samuel Butler ~
We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.
~By Richard V. Allen ~
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
~By George Santayana ~
We on our part will stick to our independent foreign policy of peace, acting forever as a strong defender of world peace and a persistent proponent of common development.
~By Jinato Hu ~
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy.
~By Arthur Hertzberg ~
Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.
~By Mark Strand ~
To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.
~By Richard Wilbur ~
Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.
~By Robert Casey ~
Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
~By Wislawa Szymborska ~
Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive.
~By Nancy Reagan ~
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.
~By Barbara Deming ~
The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.
~By Thomas Perry ~
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 ~
Moreover, I want us to urge political and religious leaders, and all peoples of the world, to move forward in a conciliatory spirit, to deal with religious matters in a responsible and balanced way, and to focus on their common grounds.
~By Alcee Hastings ~
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
~By Alice Walker ~
If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.
~By Bruce Sterling ~
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
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 ~
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
~By J. Edgar Hoover ~
According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.
~By Ellsworth Huntington ~
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