Common Quotes - Page 22

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make sense, but only if there is a common co-ordinate system on which to plot them; yet the existence of a common system belies the claim of dramatic incomparability.

When it all boils down, its about embracing each others stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

Space is going to be commonplace.

The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with that bad logical quality to which the epithet metaphysical is commonly applied; and nothing can clear it up but a severe course of logic.

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

There are more hooligans in the House of Commons than at a football match.

Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.

If General Motors is worth $60 a share to an investor it must be because the full common-stock ownership of this gigantic enterprise as a whole is worth 43 million (shares) times $60, or no less than $2,600 million.

The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one automatically from one's birthright of membership in the great human family.

One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals.

The language of the heart is mankind's main common language.

Touch the earth, speak of love, walk on common ground.

Dorian Yates and I have nothing in common, physically speaking. He's a Volkswagen; I'm a Porsche.

The path of success in business is invariably the path of common-sense. Nothwithstanding all that is said about "lucky hits," the best kind of success in every man's life is not that which comes by accident. The only "good time coming" we are justified in hoping for is that which we are capable of making for ourselves.

The United States is enriched by many cultures, and united by a single common language.

Successful salesman: someone who has found a cure for the common cold shoulder.

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

There is a common belief that under modern conditions peace cannot be assured except on the basis of an equal balance of armaments...[but] true and lasting peace among nations cannot consist in the possession of an equal supply of armaments but only in mutual trust.

The thing I absolutely love about food is it's a common thread that connects us no matter what culture we come from.

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.