Common Quotes - Page 9

Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.

Cooking creates a sense of well-being for yourself and the people you love and brings beauty and meaning to everyday life. And all it requires is common sense – the common sense to eat seasonally, to know where your food comes from, to support and buy from local farmers and producers who are good stewards of our natural resources.

Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance?

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.

The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.

Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.

You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.

A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason.

The spiritual world is connected with the physical world. The common factor connecting all things is true love.

Getting over those unexpected hurdles may not be exactly enjoyable, but ultimately I believe that such challenges and the solutions we find give us more confidence.They teach us with common sense and determination we can turn what looks like a disaster into a triumph.

Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.

Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.

Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.

I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.

Where there is no common power, there is no law

What do Obama and God have in common? Neither has a birth certificate. How do they differ? God does not think he's Obama.

That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question.

Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible.

I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.