Quotes of: Common-people Keyword

Faith and beliefs are the common things in all religion, so God is the faith and the belief without exception.

Debasish Mridha

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

Jenna Elfman

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

James Garner

Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.

John Edward Christopher Hill

A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible.

Annie Besant

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

Dan Simmons

To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.

Baron d'Holbach

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

George Berkeley

The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.

Norman Angell

Ball tempering is common in Cricket. Rigging is common in Elections. Whats the big deal? — Najumi Sethi

Life

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

William Allen White

Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the prevailing common sense was possible.

Martin Jacques

democracy is about the conditions that make it possible for ordinary people to better their lives by becoming political beings and by making power responsive to their hopes and needs. What is at stake in democratic politics is whether ordinary men an...

Sheldon S. Wolin

For us of course the shared activity and therefore the companionship on which Friendship supervenes will not often be a bodily one like hunting or fighting. It may be a common religion, common studies, a common profession, even a common recreation. A...

The Four Loves

None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.

French

It is common knowledge that 87% of the problems of the world are caused by cats. No cats, no problems." Hank the Cowdog

The Case of the Secret Weapon

As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

You're a romantic. What's romantic about a guy wanting to go somewhere and actually getting there?

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

But like balloons, they were excessively buoyant, and if you weren't careful, they floated away.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.

Fool's Assassin