Top 1200 Common People Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off.

Hypocrisy is the ultimate power move. It is a way of demonstrating that one plays by a different set of rules from the ones adhered to by common people.

I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.

I live in places where, although I don't take public stands, I'm surrounded by liberals, and I've spent a lot of time in this country talking to people who have very different views than the people I live around and trying to see kind of what's in common beneath those conversations.

The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.

A common measure of poverty is how much money you have in relation to other people - that is useful as far as it goes, but that excludes the case of, say, a hunter in the rainforest who has no money but is not poor. And there can be a number of people with money but who can consider themselves unwanted or invisible or estranged from society.

People with the boat bug are never happier than when they are poking around marinas, fantasizing about owning other people's boats. It's a disease that costs more to cure than any other single common learning disability.

There is nothing wrong when the Trump administration says it wants to find areas of common ground to work with Russia - perfectly reasonable. The question is, are you willing to pay the Russians in advance for the privilege of working with them in areas that are supposed to be of common interest, and that - I don't see the American interest in doing so.

Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.

Architecture is not a private affair; even a house must serve a whole family and its friends, and most buildings are used by everybody, people of all walks of life. If a building is to meet the needs of all the people, the architect must look for some common ground of understanding and experience.

Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end.

There is just something about the common being. My education pretty much came from the streets, just connecting with people, different cultures. I gained the wealth just engaging at that level. I'm still like that. I continue to document everyday people versus the stars.

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

When you have a concussion, one of the symptoms that is common is anxiety. Imagine having the normal amount of anxieties that everybody shares - about life and meeting people in social spaces, whatever. Imagine that being multiplied by 10, 20. And so your worry over people's perceptions of you multiplies.

When we call something unfair or indecent or unconscionable or evil, when we speak of mercy and pity and compassion, those words have meaning, regardless of our particular faith or moral philosophy. They appeal to common standards we all are expected to understand and accept, standards without which we could not live any common life at all.

I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of the US, Japan and the international community.

It's a common perception that science and religion are mutually exclusive. But there are many scientists who would consider themselves to be spiritual people.

Today, terrorism threatens a great number of states, a great number of people - hundreds of thousands, millions of people suffer from its criminal activity. And we all face the task of joining our efforts in the fight against this common evil.

It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.

The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!

In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different branches; and to render them by different modes of election, and different principles of action, as little connected with each other as the nature of their common functions, and their common dependence on the society, will admit.

Take, for example, there is a right-wing populist uprising. It's very common, even on the left, to just ridicule them, but that's not the right reaction. If you look at those people and listen to them on talk radio, these are people with real grievances.

One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish much. Success is the result of people pulling together to meet common goals.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

The people are the foundation of the nation. Our only chance for a lasting peace on earth: the release of the strength of the common man.

To be actively pro-life is to contribute to the renewal of society through the promotion of the common good. It is impossible to further the common good without acknowledging and defending the right to life, upon which all the other inalienable rights of individuals are founded and from which they develop.

I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that.

Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground.

True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord.

What I like to do with music is make people feel better. Make people realize that all humans have the same problems, more or less. A lot of people deal with the same thing. A lot of times people think problems are specific to them and they if they hear a song about a problem common to them, they feel good because they know that someone else has gone through it.

When preparing your return, you should be sure to avoid common mistakes. The two most common taxpayer mistakes, states the IRS booklet, are (1) "failure to include a current address," and (2) "failure to be a large industry that gives humongous contributions to key tax-law-writing congresspersons."

Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer. Most people spend their lives going to bed when they're not sleepy and getting up when they are!

What is common to our societies is the development into a managed mass society, with big bureaucracy, managing people. The Russians do it by force. We do it by persuasion.

It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.

We need to not be scared [of muslim], but understand each other. When you're around these people, you see they have much more in common than their differences.

The economic union - creating a big common market, like the United States, so that you can compete across borders. There are common rules, regulations, and simplification, and that is still a good reason, too. When they put their monetary union together, that created a rigidity that made it hard for currency fluctuations. They don't really have a solution to that.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

I believe in nature and humanity and am here to serve the common people of Pakistan. There is a great deal of suffering in this country and I'm here to help.

What landed Jesus on the cross was the preposterous idea that common, ordinary, broken, screwed-up people could be godly.

I say this often, THINK. There is something in life called common sense. Webster's says common sense is sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts. Perhaps this is why in 1776, Thomas Paine used these words as a title for the most famous pamphlet ever written.

The United Nations is the preeminent institution of multilateralism. It provides a forum where sovereign states can come together to share burdens, address common problems, and seize common opportunities. The U.N. helps establish the norms that many countries - including the United States - would like everyone to live by.

So somehow we've got to get back to making stuff for people that are not necessarily interested in seeing the common Broadway fare.

What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and navy,--for there must be subordination,--but uncommon sense, that sense which is common only to the wisest, is as much more excellent as it is more rare.

That is why all great men are modest: they consistently measure themselves not in comparison to other people but to the idea of perfection ever present in their minds, an ideal infinitely clearer and greater than any common people have, and they also realize how far they are from fulfilling their ideal.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

The most sophisticated people I've ever known had just one thing in common: they were all in touch with their inner children.

I am more prolific when I have something to respond to. I get my juice from people and real stories and things that seem common but are amazing.

We have found that companies need to speak a common language because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are seemingly counterintuitive. If companies don't have that common language, it is hard for them to come to consensus on a counterintuitive course of action.

I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible.

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.

If you have a common purpose and an environment in which people want to help others succeed, the problems will be fixed quickly.

Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. Those who lack humour are without judgment and should be trusted with nothing.