Common Quotes

• 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

• There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Common
  • Havens

• 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

• Ukraine is the closest country to us. We have always said that Ukraine is our sister country and it is true. It is not just a Slavic people, it is the closest people to Russia: we have similar languages, culture, common history, religion etc.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Country
  • Culture

• The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Roles

• Nobody had told me I was common.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Common

• What with our hooks, snares, nets, and dogs, we are at war with all living creatures, and nothing comes amiss but that which is either too cheap or too common; and all this is to gratify a fantastical palate.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Life
  • War
  • Dog

• Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Common
  • Prompts

• 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

• When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Kind
  • Travel
  • Process

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

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Common
  • Dysfunction

• 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

• 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

• What is common sense isn't common practice.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Practice
  • Common

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Simple
  • Philosophy
  • Common

• 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

• Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • Democracy
  • Communication
  • Secrecy

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