Common Quotes - Page 33

Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.

The most common conception of Capitalism is that it is an economic system consisting of privately owned businesses and large corporations that are run for profit. The profit comes from running the business efficiently and keeping the products and services up to date and competitively priced.

The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.

First, those who disagree with market efficiency simply assert that it stands to common sense that greater effort to get facts and greater acumen in analyzing those facts will pay off in better performance somehow measured. (By this logic, cure for cancer must have been found by 1955).

if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.

The greatest results in life are usually attained by common sense and perseverance.

Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

The terrorists whatever slogans they use have nothing in common with Islam.

There's a lot of common sense ... which I feel like we have lost touch with.

Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.

I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.

There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem to have in common is their yearning to enter this world.

Let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything.

It's hard to hate up close. The more you get to know each other, the more common ground you can find and the more you can disagree without being disagreeable.

Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.

It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way.

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

The world is in need of less religion and more common sense.

Commonality doesn't inoculate against hurt.