Top 1200 Common People Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

People, the common people, can genuinely see what I'm doing. Moreover, people know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence. These are the four principles I adopted at the very beginning and continue to use until now. People see this and give me donations.

The enclosure of the biological and intellectual commons in this way is a real threat to the future of people everywhere because it creates a situation where common practices that have been part of people's lives for generations become monopolies of a handful of pharmaceutical, agribusiness and agrichemical corporations. People then become incapable of looking after their own needs.

Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.

With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept the shibboleth of an unbridgeable gap between those who hire and those who are employed. We miserably fail to challenge the lie that what is good for management is necessarily bad for labor; that for one side to profit, the other must be depressed. Such distorted doctrine is false and foreign to the American scene where common ideals and purpose permit us a common approach toward the common good.

The truth is Floridians and Montanans have more in common than you might think. Both are fed up with partisan gridlock in D.C., and look to their state leaders to find common ground, pursue compromise, and move forward solutions that improve the health of their economy, their communities and their residents.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

The E.U. cannot give up on common solidarity. The idea that every country does its own thing, and history and geography decides whose turn it is - whether Greece or Italy or Spain or, who knows, even Poland if there's a crisis in north-eastern Europe - that just can't be. There has to be a common policy.

These trees and these old people have one thing in common - they're both going in the ground soon!

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

In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.

It is a mystery why people think they need to act as their friends' dietitian, nonetheless it's common.

The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people.

It's a common issue that you see out there, where some families aren't as accepting of what people choose to be in their life.

I was born in a 10x10 room of a chawl, and we shared a common bathroom with other people in the neighbourhood.

Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.

Constitution is for the people, people are not for the constitution. Change it for the betterment of the common man.

When you're surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.

Music is common language. I can sing 'Bebot' in front of white people and they will dance.

The most common trait I have found in all successful people is that they have conquered the temptation to give up.

Stupidity is what we all have in common as human beings, but some people insist that improving it is their entitlement.

May the time not be far off when all other European nations will come to the realisation that the primary necessity is putting an end to the quarrels and strife of centuries and of building up of a finer community of all peoples is: The recognition of a higher common duty arising out of common rights?

Beneath multiple specific and individual distinctions, beneath innumerable and incessant transformations, at the bottom of the circular evolution without beginning or end, there hides a law, a unique nature participated in by all beings, in which this common participation produces a ground of common harmony.

No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.

I am calling for common sense gun safety measures to protect people.

Let's listen to the people and find common ground to remove barriers to job creation.

Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.

To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. He is proud of a common heritage and loyal to common traditions. But he regards government as a means, an instrumentality, neither a grantor of favors and gifts, nor a master or god to be blindly worshipped and served.

I definitely try to play a common man in my roles so people can identify with my characters, but the truth of the matter is that it doesn't really matter what I do or my lines are, I'm still Zach Braff, and people know I'm better than them.

I have tried to treat people on the other side civilly and look for common ground.

Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.

I have a tremendous belief in people, not that people don't let me down, not that I haven't maybe let some people down. But I have a tremendous belief in people and in the common experience.

See yourself as you really are. Listen to what none of your leaders and representatives dares tell you: You are a "little, common man." Understand the double meaning of these words: "little" and "common." Don't run. Have the courage to look at yourself!

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.

Perhaps we have more in common by virtue of our common humanity than we have differences by virtue of our religions.

So many people have been abused. It's not rare; it's a very common human experience, and we survive.

It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

There are so many common occurrences in raising children that people just can't seem to figure out.

I think people have common sense and can tell what's real, what's right or what's wrong and work it out.

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

I believe sport brings people together and allows them to feel united for a common goal.

I think it is one of the common themes for many Japanese people to choose where to live: Tokyo or their hometown.

A president must serve only the common cause of the people of the United States.

The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

It amazes me how little common curtesy people can show when their tested.

Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.

I think it's pretty common for people to get excited when they meet somebody that they know from the media.

I like to say that the one thing that all people who succeed in changing the world have in common is that they at least tried.

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

The land on which the cattle grazed was communal property. It was owned by no one. It was nobody's private farm. It was the common property of the people, shared by the people. So the practice of sharing was central to the concept of ownership of property.

There is no common standard for education about diagnosis. Distinguishing between bipolar depression and major depressive disorder, for example, can be difficult, and mistakes are common. Misdiagnosis can be lethal. Medications that work well for some forms of depression induce agitation in others.

North Carolinians are hard-working common-sense, decent and stubbornly independent people.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.

What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.

We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a common purpose: to eradicate these ills for the benefit of all. And we share a common tool to achieve this: the Millennium Development Goals.

It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick.