Common Quotes - Page 11

It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven together by a common thread.

Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that relapses are far less common when people are treated with psychotherapy.

Over 70% of what are called corruption (cases), even by EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission) and other anti-corruption agencies, is not corruption, but common stealing.

If we reach common ground, and can understand what everybody's going through, we can really affect change. And make sure that everyone is trated equally and has the same freedom.

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.

What paper planes and empty seats most have in common is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.

It is no common mortal who speaks to us in this music.

We've got to understand that all disenfranchised people have something in common...The pursuit of justice really is about equality for everyone.

Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common... Celebrate it every day.

The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.

I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

Ukip policies are common-sense policies.

If I point to anything that makes me who I am, it's that I have a whole lot of common sense. I've got a good mind and a good ability to read people and situations.

It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?

I don't believe virginity is common as it used to be.

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

I am just a plain, common man.