A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
If more people would try and reach up instead of going to the lowest common denominator, I think we'd be a lot better off.
Birds and the people who love freedom have something common: They must fly freely to feel that they are alive!
Common people are often enough; that is why God made so many of them. Your job is to be--- EXTRAORDINARY.
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
People don't think their dreams amount to much, but when I ask them to examine them for common themes, they surprise themselves at how accurate they are! They see that their dreams have value.
Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there are now more people driving more cars.
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.
It's a fairly common phenomenon of London life - people having fully developed critiques of books they haven't read and films they haven't seen. I'd probably include myself in that.
We always think of borders as something that separates two peoples but of course they unite them. It's something you have in common, literally.
I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.
Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.
I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.
I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people.
I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.
The more books you read, the less topics you have in common with most of the people, that´s the price you pay for reading.
These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri.
…the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?
Both noble and common blood are the same color.
