Quotes of: Common-sense Keyword

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

Dictators long ago found that it is easier to unite people in common hatred than in common love.

A Dictionary of Thought

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

Friendship is the underlying element, the common denominator of every relationship.

Friends With Benefits: Rethinking Friendship, Dating & Violence

The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.

The Greek Way

Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.

Evan Parker

In Italy we have not a Common law legal system, we have a stupid one instead!

L'Italia in breve.

So the freshness lives on in a lemon, in the sweet-smelling house of the rind, the proportions, arcane and acerb.

Odes to Common Things

An unknown cause is not the same as divine intervention.

Why There Is No God: Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God

The one thing all entrepreneurs have in common is that they started. The one thing everyone else has in common is that they haven’t.

Ryan Lilly

I remember when MySpace came out. It did do something pretty incredible - which was unite people around the world with common interests and common tastes.

Spike Jonze

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Napoleon Bonaparte

We're on the border of this world, speaking a common language. That's all.

Kafka on the Shore

The United States and Russia probably do not have common aims and dreams, but they have common worries: Both Washington and Moscow are concerned about the rise of China and are threatened by the rise of radical Islam.

Ivan Krastev

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.

Dora Russell

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

Pope Francis

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

Lyndon B. Johnson