Quotes of: Commonly Keyword

Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.

Cecil Frank Powell

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Samuel Johnson

Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed.

George Henry Lewes

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

Maxwell Maltz

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

Ambrose Bierce

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

Ambrose Bierce

There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it.

John Welwood

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.

J. L. Austin

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Elbert Hubbard

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Francis Bacon

In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.

Charles Lyell

My opinion was that if we had a common enemy we should get together commonly.

Julius Rosenberg

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.

John Tillotson

What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.

Anne Bronte

Barium, which is commonly found in power plant waste and scrubber wastewater, has been linked to heart problems and diseases in other organs.

Charles Duhigg

Contrary to what is commonly believed, all murderers are men of extreme faith rather than unbelievers.

My Name is Red

The God that we commonly know may be less sinister than the true God that we don't know for sure.

Master of Stupidity

There are many theories about the best way to remove excess carbon from the atmosphere - some are ludicrous, others are at least worth study. The most commonly discussed plan is to lace the sky with reflective chemicals.

Michael Specter