Quotes of: Common-people Keyword

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

Satchel Paige

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

Sun Tzu

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.

Trey Anastasio

I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.

Theodore Bikel

Blue and green eyes will be so common that dark brown will become the rare and newly desired eye color.

Tyra Banks

All great writers share one thing in common: They finished their books.

M. Kirin

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Rose Macaulay

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

David Leavitt

When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says.

George Crook

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Aldous Huxley

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

Gus Van Sant

It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.

Martha Plimpton

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

Jeff Bezos

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

Edward Gibbon

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

George Washington Carver

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

Ellis Peters

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

Alexander Pope

A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues.

Judith Rodin

The Common Core State Standards are more rigorous standards than the great majority of states had in place previously.

Jeb Bush

If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no other position is possible.

Don Nickles

I think the important thing now is to have a celebration and then with determination move into our common, shared, different future.

Michael D. Higgins