Top 1200 Common People Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

It's very common business for players and management to go back and forth and try to find common ground.

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For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.

Just because it's common sense, doesn't mean it's common practice.

Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.

I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it's such a common, constant thing in people's lives - a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it's just accepted.

People who reject transcendent authority can no longer persuade one another through rational arguments; everything is reduced to personal opinion. Debates about ideas thus degenerate into power struggles; we're left with no moral standard by which to measure the common good. For that matter, how can there be a 'common good' without an objective standard of truth?

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

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!

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.

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.

The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract.

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.

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

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

Magicians and scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangely, live in a world of their own, speak a specialized language and frequently make statements that appear to be in flagrant breach of common sense have nothing in common with a group of people who often dress strangely, speak a specialized language, live in ... er.

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!

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.

The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able to conduct their lives as free men. Those societies where men know they are free are often democracies, but sometimes they have strong chiefs and kings.they have, however, one common characteristic: they are all alike in making certain freedoms common to all citizens, and inalienable.

The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.

Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

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.

Common sense is not really so common. The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic

It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not that common!

People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.

Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at any rate, without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment. And science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.

I'm very close to a lot of people from my time in the band, like our hair and make-up people and the dancers, but you gravitate towards the people that you have stuff in common with.

Go get yourself stressed all the time and the common cold becomes more common.

In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.

The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding. We create these communities from women who share common conditions, and those mothers carry each other through.

In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

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

Hang out with those who have a common FUTURE with you; not a common past.

Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.

Through skateboarding, I have an open line of communication, some common ground and common ground is big man. That enables me to travel around the world and no matter where I am, or who I'm with, connect with other young people, and I can have an instant dialogue and an instant relationship based on the fact that we skateboard, and when I'm doing appearances and demos, that's not lost on me.

Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feelings of moral superiority while asking nothing in return. With contempt you don't need to right the wrong (as with anger) or flee the scene (as with fear or disgust). And the best of all, contempt is made to share. Stories about the moral failings of others are among the most common kinds of gossip, they are a stable of talk radio, and they offer a ready way for people to show that they share a common moral orientation.

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.

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

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

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

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.

One of the most important virtues of the American character is our ability to approach the complexities that life presents us with common sense and decency, .. The considered judgment of the American people is not going to rise or fall on the fine distinctions of a legal argument but on straight talk and the truth. It is time for the president and the Congress to follow that common sense for the good of the country.

The labor movement is people. Our unions have brought millions of men and women together, made them members one of another, and given them common tools for common goals. Their goals are goals for all America - and their enemies are the enemies for progress. The two cannot be separated.

The commotions that have taken place in America, as far as they are yet known to me, offer nothing threatening. They are a proof that the people have liberty enough, and I could not wish them less than they have. If the happiness of the mass of the people can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase. 'Malo libertatem periculosam quam quietem servitutem.' Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.

So many people think that social studies and weird lessons in social studies, teaching kids in America are bad, is it the result of Common Core? And it's not. It's not. Common Core does not deal with social studies. It's basically writing and math.

We are unified both by hating in common and by being hated in common.

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 common person fears to think beyond the common.

Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal 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

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

We need to move forward, from the common currency to the banking union to a common financial policy and, in the middle-term, to a common foreign and security policy. That will take time, because we need to figure out how to deal with those countries that don't always want a more tightly integrated European Union.

The lowest common denominator of the universe is both low and common.

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

I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common people conceive those quantities under no other notions but from the relation they bear to sensible objects. And thence arise certain prejudices, for the removing of which it will be convenient to distinguish them into absolute and relative, true and apparent, mathematical and common.

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.

Why is it that common sense is seldom common practice?

A Nation... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry, and a common dislike of their neighbors

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