Common Quotes
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There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.
Lou Holtz -
If we reject science, we reject the common man.
Naguib Mahfouz
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We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.
Rufus Choate -
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
Oscar Wilde -
The common bond of humanity and decency that we share is stronger than any conflict, any adversity. Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount. Knowing when to fight and when to seek peace is wisdom. Ubuntu was right.
Wes Moore -
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.
Nursultan Nazarbayev -
I wasn't interested in car parts per se, I was interested in either the color or the shape or the amount... Just the sheet metal. It already had a coat of paint on it. And some of it was formed.... I believe that common materials are the best materials.
John Chamberlain -
Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.
Adam Lambert
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Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.
Walter de La Mare -
There certainly are some good aspects to Common Core.
Randy Hultgren -
[Garry] Kasparov and [Anatoly] Karpov have something in common. They both want to become deputies of the Russian State Duma.
Viktor Korchnoi -
Taste is the common sense of genius.
Victor Hugo -
The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.
Ada Lovelace -
The only thing I have in common with George Best is that we came from the same place, play for the same club and were discovered by the same man
Norman Whiteside
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Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.
William O. Douglas -
What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.
Dan Pink -
I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all people, all times.
Keith Haring -
Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
Wayne Thiebaud -
You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht.
Chad Harbach -
Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.
Jack Horner
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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
Samuel Butler -
Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. GEORGE HENRY LEWES, The Physiology of Common Life Killing is not nearly as easy as the innocent believe.
Joanne Rowling -
You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.
William Shakespeare -
Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
Dan Simmons