Common Quotes - Page 23

Age simply doesn't enter into it! The older the friend, the more he is valued, particularly when he shows so visibly the characteristics that we all look for in friends. You have only to look at a genuine teddy's face to see at once the loyalty, common sense, and above all, dependability behind it.

This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency.

I just know that the one thing that we all have in common is challenges. No one lives a challenge free life.

There are some plain common-sense considerations applicable to all these attempts at world planning. They can be briefly stated: 1. To talk of blueprints for the future or building a world order is, if properly understood, suggestive, but it is also dangerous. Societies grow far more truly than they are built. A constitution for a new world order is never like a blueprint for a skyscraper.

They have done their worst, and continued to deny me even the privileges accorded to the common herd . . . but I am sustained by the consciousness of my imputed 'crime' being an honourable one

Excess is the common substitute for energy.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

There is a geography of the human spirit, common to all peoples.

people share a common nature but are trained in gender roles.

A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes.

Nature is the common, universal language, understood by all.

Woman is as common as a loaf of bread, and like a loaf of bread, will rise.

Leadership is the ability to get individuals to work together for the common good and the best possible results while at the same time letting them know they did it themselves.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.

There is something all life has in common, and when I know what it is I shall know myself.

Bound together by our beliefs, we are like minded individuals, sharing a common vision, pushing toward a world rid of color lines.

When one gets reports from scientists, engineers and technicians whose credibility by all common standards is high and whose moral caliber seems to preclude a hoax, one can do no less than hear them out, in all seriousness.

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.

I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

It would be foolish to give credit to Euclid for pangeometrical conceptions; the idea of geometry deifferent from the common-sense one never occurred to his mind. Yet, when he stated the fifth postulate, he stood at the parting of the ways. His subconscious prescience is astounding. There is nothing comperable to it in the whole history of science.

As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.

Saying 'Gesundheit' doesn't really help the common cold - but its about as good as anything the doctors have come up with.

And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.