Quotes on Common

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.

It is obvious that an imagined #‎ world , however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.

A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how little he alludes to his own; ... This abnegation of his own opinion, and this implicit deference to the opinion of his forefathers, which are common to the English and American lawyer, this servitude of thought which he is obliged to profess, necessarily give him more timid habits and more conservative inclinations in England and America than in France.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

Your life doesn’t happen in any kind of order. Events don’t have cause and effect relationships the way you wish they did. It’s all a series of fragments and repetitions and pattern formations. Language and water have this in common.

Love heightens all senses - except the common.

Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.

The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of the same ingenuity, then things will only become formalized and get stuck in a cul-de-sac; whereby breakthrough and progress will be almost impossible.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

I learned that money can be a lot of things,It can be something that is hoarded, fought over, protected, stolen and withheld. Or it can be like an energy, fueled by the desire, will, creative interest, need to laugh, of large groups of people. And it can be shuffled and pushed around and pooled together to fuel a common interest, jokes about garbage, penises and parenthood.

Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.