Common Quotes - page 6

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die. (Bob Dylan)
Life moves out of a red flare of dreams into a common light of common hours, until old age bring the red flare again. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy. View quote
Sarah Palin
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. View quote
Helen Rowland
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. View quote
Denis Diderot
... It was in masking education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled. View quote
James Russell Lowell
The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. View quote
William Wordsworth
Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold. View quote
William Wordsworth
Thou has left behind Powers that will work for thee,air, earth, and skies There 's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee thou hast great allies Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind. View quote
William Wordsworth
Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma. (Jack Kevorkian)
Pytheos made a mistake by not observing that the arts are each composed of two things, the actual work and the theory of it. One of these, the doing of the work, is proper to men trained in the individual subject, while the other the theory is common to all scholars. View quote
Vitruvius
Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the fourth and the fifth, and with geometricians in the subject of vision; and in all other sciences many points, perhaps all, are common so far as the discussion of them is concerned. But the actual undertaking of works which are brought to perfection by the hand and its manipulation is the function of those who have been specially trained to deal with a single art. View quote
Vitruvius
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life. View quote
Michael J. Sandel
The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven. View quote
Edward Young
Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
High politic is only common sense applied to great things. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty, and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice. (Louis Brandeis)
The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use. View quote
Louis Brandeis
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them. View quote
Rose Macaulay
I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice. View quote
George Mason
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense... View quote
David Deutsch