Top 1200 Common Good Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.

What do I have in common with Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself.

God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.

For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.

When you have a highly divided society, it's hard to come together to make investments in the common good.

It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong.

Dubai was brilliant, they looked around the world. They saw Hong Kong, Singapore, New York, Chicago, Sydney, London all ran British common law. British common law is much better for commerce than is French common law or sharia law. So they took 110 acres of Dubai soil, put British common law with a British judge in charge, and they went from an empty piece of soil to the 16th most powerful financial center in [the] world in eight years.

Islam undoubtedly deserves respect. It has some things in common with Christianity, such as Abraham as a common progenitor, and the belief in only one God.

Good home-school educational plans have the kids in groups with other children often and consistently. Because common sense dictates that isolating people is never good and home-schooled children really benefit from being in those type of programs.

It is common to forget a man and slight him if his good will cannot help you.

I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.

You know, you get famous and you work in these weird jobs and you don't have a lot in common with people. But once you have kids, you have everything in common with everybody.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

At Ford Motor Company, we believe the arts speak a common language that weaves a common thread among all people.

I make a list of what I have in common, and what I don't have in common, with someone I'm playing

Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.

If I could leave this body with one wish, it would be that we never give up that search for common ground, .. The politics of common ground will not be found on the far right, or on the far left. That is not where most Americans live. We will only find it on the firm middle ground, based on common sense and shared values.

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

And here one must not that hatred is acquired just as much by means of good actions as by bad ones; and so, as I said above, if a prince wishes to maintain the state, he is often obliged not to be good; because whenever that group which you believe you need to support you is corrupted, whether it be the common people, the soldiers, or the nobles, it is to your advantage to follow their inclinations in order to satisfy them; and then good actions are your enemy.

Coho or silver salmon are very common and easy to get for a good price.

Why is it that common sense is seldom common practice?

O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!

The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common.

Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential.

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

You can't be common, the common man goes nowhere; you have to be uncommon

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.

When aristocrats pretend they're common people -- they get common!

I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.

Good grief. If we can’t laugh at ourselves, and at one another, in good spirit and without malice, then what fun can be left? If we must withhold all ribbing in the name of protecting everyone’s feelings, then we truly are a toothless society. We will reach what I call “the lowest common denominator of butthurt.

We define family in many different ways: not just by blood but by people with whom we find a common ground and a common bond.

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

Even if it's just a little thing, something like a song, there's still that sort of common language, that common denominator that we can all relate to.

If a society does not wage a common struggle to attain a common goal with its women and men, scientifically there is no way for it to become civilized or developed.

But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.

They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.

There are various ways you might define the common good, but that would be one way you could do it.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

If you take a look at education, the kids that get good grades are said to humiliate those who don't. And what, then, do we do? Slow them down. We put obstacles in their way. We do not devise public education systems that are designed to deal with their superior learning ability. We retard it so that they don't learn any more, any faster than the lowest common denominator - and that really is the nub of it. The Democrats' equality and sameness is all going to be defined by the lowest common denominator.

It's called common sense, but it's not common. Most people don't have it.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.

What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.

I make a list of what I have in common, and what I don't have in common, with someone I'm playing.

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

Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.

In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character.

As for the common men apart, Who sweat to keep their common breath, And have no hour for books or art-- What dreams have these to hide from death!

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.

Sometimes there is a common threat that can produce a common interest in putting aside all the differences in trying to find a constructive solution.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.