Common Quotes - page 5

The most common format of music on an iPod is 'stolen.' (Steve Ballmer)
Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist. View quote
Leon Battista Alberti
There is still no cure for the common birthday. View quote
John Glenn
Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty. View quote
Samuel Johnson
EXCISE, n.' A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but by wretches hired by those to whom the excise is paid. View quote
Samuel Johnson
He is the richest author that ever grazed the common of literature. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless, a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations. View quote
George W. Bush
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly foresee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle. View quote
George Washington
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. View quote
Nora Roberts
A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis. View quote
Temple Grandin
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. View quote
Jimmy Carter
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. View quote
Jimmy Carter
Culture is on the horns of this dilemma if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean. View quote
George Santayana
It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong. View quote
Saul Kripke
Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense. View quote
Benjamin Spock
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. View quote
Booker T. Washington
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. (Woodrow Wilson)
Let us not allow the splits and splintering to frighten us. It is, indeed, a pity, but what can we do, since we are all Bulgarians and all suffer from one common disease. If this disease had not been present in our ancestors, from whom we inherited it, they would have never fallen under the sceptre of the Turkish Sultan... View quote
Gotse Delchev
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence. View quote
Sun Tzu
Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission. View quote
Zig Ziglar
Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common every-day beauty. View quote
John Muir