Common Quotes - Page 19

Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice.

Fear and faith have a lot in common. Both of these emotions require that you believe in something that you can't see.

I'm pretty laidback as a dad anyway. I just trust her so much. She has a great head on her shoulders and she makes pretty good decisions most of the time. She even has enough common sense that if she makes a bad one she makes adjustments and knows that's what life is. It's a day-by-day, step-by-step journey through life, as she says in the movie.

Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.

Let us each of us now embrace with solemn duty, and awesome joy, what is our lasting birthright. With common effort and common purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom.

Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.

A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.

Men who sincerely abhorred the word Communism in the pursuit of common ends found that they were unable to distinguish Communists from themselves…. For men who could not see that what they firmly believed was liberalism added up to socialism could scarcely be expected to see what added up to Communism. Any charge of Communism enraged them precisely because they could not grasp the differences between themselves and those against whom it was made.

I come from very common stock, and I've always been uncomfortable with pretension and all the forms it can take, including disingenuous broadcasting.

Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us.

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.

Making money is a common sense. It's not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon.

The constitution is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other.

I learned about life from life itself, love I learned in a single kiss and could teach no one anything except that I have lived with something in common among men.

I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18.

Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.

If all our common-sense notions about the universe were correct, then science would have solved the secrets of the universe thousands of years ago. The purpose of science is to peel back the layer of the appearance of the objects to reveal their underlying nature. In fact, if appearance and essence were the same thing, there would be no need for science.

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.

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.

Knowledge counts but common sense matters.

Alas, our rulers are not gods, but puny, fallible men, like the kings who constantly forget their parts, and we common men should be their prompters.

No one ever owns a cat...you share a common habitation on a basis of equal rights and mutual respects...although somehow the cat always comes out ahead of the deal.

Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.