Quotes of: Common-people Keyword

In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

Olympia Snowe

You don't gain more authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't have much authority.

Parenting Pitfalls: Common Parenting Mistakes and Common Sense Solutions

I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.

Wayne Brady

Two people occupying the same air. Nothing else in common. Just oxygen.

Oh Dear Silvia

If there's one common thread throughout all of history, it's that people have always fallen for the wrong people.

Past Perfect

The most common phrase bandied about these days is 'Oh my God'. People say it automatically all the time - not realising that that's a form of prayer.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people.

John Baldacci

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

Charles Dickens

In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Andrzej Wajda

It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.

John Charles Polanyi

Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.

Alan Siegel

Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enough. Uncertainty, the ultimate evil that modern law seeks to eradicate, generally fosters cooperation, not the opposite.

The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America

What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense — none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizat...

Hyman G. Rickover

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Every dollar that is printed should not represent a debt to private bankers. It should represent an investment potential in the common good, in the common needs of our country.

Cynthia McKinney

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

Angus Wilson

Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it to be noticed for the way you turn a phrase. You have a very important job--one of the most important. Your job is to le...

The Golden Theme: How to Make Your Writing Appeal to the Highest Common Denominator

If nonsatiety were the natural state of human nature then aggressive want-stimulating advertising would not be necessary, nor would the barrage of novelty aimed at promoting dissatisfaction with last year's model. The system attempts to remake people...

For the Common Good: Redirecting the economy toward community, the environment, and a sustainable future.

There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonality is that they all come from animals. And the other commonality is that we wait too long.

Nathan Wolfe

In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not ...

H.L. Mencken

Common goods, no goods.

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