Common Quotes

• Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common sense. I am embarrassed when people talk about the Covey Habits, and dislike the idea of being some sort of guru.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Life
  • Business
  • Success

• It seems to me that, as it is usually presented, the current orthodoxy about the cosmic order is the product of governing assumptions that are unsupported, and that it flies in the face of common sense.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Order
  • Faces
  • Assumption

• Anyone who has examined into the history of the theories of earth evolution must have been astounded to observe the manner in which the unique and the difficultly explainable has been made to take the place of the common and the natural in deriving the framework of these theories.

  

  William Herbert Hobbs
  • Science
  • Evolution
  • Framework

• I am not against working with Russia in areas of common interests at the same time. We're smart enough, or we should be smart enough to have a dual track policy. You know, walk and chew gum at the same time.

  

  Daniel Fried
  • Enough
  • Smart
  • Track

• Common sense is very uncommon.

  

  Horace Greeley
  • Common
  • Uncommon

• I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Black
  • Culture
  • Educational

• Nobody had told me I was common.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Common

• It's a Tenth Amendment issue. If you want Washington, if you want to implement their standards, that's your call... We certainly had higher standards than Common Core, so it was a very easy decision for Texans, myself and the legislature included, to basically say we still believe that Texans know how to best run Texas.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Believe
  • Education
  • Running

• The common ingredient in every single dysfunction is an issue of power.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Common
  • Dysfunction

• I do not want to end up with an American style of politics, with us going out there beating our chest about our faith. Politics and religion - it is not that they do not have a lot in common, but if [religion] ends up being used in the political process, I think that is a bit unhealthy.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Political
  • Style
  • Process

• There is to me a daintiness about early flowers that touches me like poetry. They blow out with such a simple loveliness among the common herbs of pastures, and breathe their lives so unobtrusively, like hearts whose beatings are too gentle for the world.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • World
  • Heart
  • Simple

• If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

  

  Tommy Lee Jones
  • Military
  • Successful
  • Patriotism

• The spiritual world is connected with the physical world. The common factor connecting all things is true love.

  

  Sun Myung Moon
  • World
  • Spiritual
  • Connected

• These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.

  

  Plato
  • Democracy
  • Common
  • Equal

• We should start being intolerant to those who are intolerant to us. This is not modern logic, this is not extreme, this is common sense.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Should
  • Logic
  • Modern

• People who like what I do come in all shapes and sizes. Not sure what the common denominator is per se. Oh, it's meeee! But to be embraced by a progressive community means something to me and this one feels like home.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • People
  • Home
  • Community

• I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common with somebody - we can still talk because we were raised by the same TV and cartoons and movies.

  

  Ernest Cline
  • Common
  • Notice
  • Cartoons

• The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Common
  • Despair

• We must find a common language and that common language for us is the key of E, English. You understand, right? In music, like in language, we must find common ground. When an orchestra tunes, that common ground is A.

  

  Ari L. Goldman
  • Language
  • Find
  • Common

• My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Simple
  • Philosophy
  • Common

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