Common Quotes - Page 34

Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?

Keep it simple. Let's do the obvious thing -the common thing- but let's do it uncommonly well.

I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.

The four most common cancers that account for about 80 percent of all cancer deaths are lung, breast, colorectal cancer, and prostate cancer.

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.

Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.

A common greeting was 'Well, Gillette, how's the razor?' If I had been technically trained, I would have quit.

We are confident that through discussing with Arab and Islamic states, as well as with the League of Arab States, we will be able to reach a common vision towards maintaining the constants of our people and deal with reality.

But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense, the more dogmatically they are asserted and the more deceitful, moralizing and spiritual becomes the language of established society.

My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.

Nothing great ever came out of common sense.

A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.

We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords.

Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.

I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.

Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.

I plead guilty to that when I was young pastor. In one of my churches I changed so much, one old wag said I'd changed everything in the church except the signs on the bathroom doors! I could have used a little more wisdom. And common sense.

Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners

The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.

You still hear some people speaking as though we could decide whether the Common market existed or not.

Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.

There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.