I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.
I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.
Commoner: It's human to lie. Most of the time we can't even be honest with ourselves.
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.
I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.
Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.
One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them.
The most confounding thing of all is that we still haven't identified the cause of 20% to 30% of adult common colds.
Complaining solves nothing but creative problem solving amongst people with a common focus will produce solutions.
In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
A common and highly effective method for challenging a statement is to compare it to the previous statements of the witness for consistency and to compare it with the physical evidence.
All metropolises have one thing in common: they are made up of a crowd of lonely people
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
Common human experience alone is no guarantee with which we can build a science of psychology.
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.
Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.
