Common Quotes - Page 4

While every refugee's story is different and their anguish personal, they all share a common thread of uncommon courage - the courage not only to survive, but to persevere and rebuild their shattered lives.

Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive.

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.

It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because it tears at our social fabric. It ought to concern every business, because it distorts markets. It ought to concern every nation, because it endangers public health and fuels violence and organized crime. I’m talking about the injustice, the outrage, of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name - modern slavery.

Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing

Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!!!

The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth. Nuclear arms cannot bolster the security of any nation because they represent a threat to the security of the human race. These incredibly destructive weapons are an affront to our common humanity, and the tens of billions of dollars that are dedicated to their development and maintenance should be used instead to alleviate human need and suffering

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

The strength of the nation lies in the well-being of the common man.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon.

I’m a great believer in common sense, and the older I get I see that common sense is not that common

The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.

Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.

Surely, nothing can be more plain or even more trite common sense than the proposition that innovation [...] is at the center of practically all the phenomena, difficulties, and problems of economic life in capitalist society.

Before games are played in common, no rules in the proper sense can come into existence. Regularities and ritualized schemas are already there, but these rites, being the work of the individual, cannot call forth that submission to something superior to the self which characterizes the appearance of any rule.

　When the leaders speak of peace 　The common folk know 　That war is coming 　When the leaders curse war 　The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread 　I go to the market where lies are bought 　Hopefully 　I take up my place among the sellers. 　

Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

I've always been literally a lover of the absurd. I think the absurd gives a new dimension to reality and even to common sense. And life, you know, on an everyday basis, is absurd, or may turn out to be absurd. There's no reality without absurdity.