Common Quotes

People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people. Saul Alinsky
Good Freedom Democracy People Free Sacrifice Others Unless Willing Some Ongoing Price Pursuit Common Common Good Cannot Interests Guarantee
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Vladimir Nabokov
Darkness Light Abyss Sense Our Tells Above Between Existence Rocks Crack Cradle Common Common Sense Us Brief Two
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. W. Somerset Maugham
Young Imagination More Powerful Exercise Contrary Mature Than Common Common Belief Belief Grows
Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline. William Hague
Truth Good You Speak Discipline Sense High High Standards Without Common Afraid Common Sense Standards
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Example Sense Society Taken New Always Surprise Any Common Common Sense
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. Alphonse de Lamartine
Happiness Grief Stronger Sympathy Joys Links Than Hearts Closer Common Far Ever Sufferings Two Bonds
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. An Wang
Success Genius Sense Consistent More Than Common Common Sense Success Is Function
A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good. Barbara Jordan
Good Responsibility Nation Willingness Share Upholding Common Common Good Formed Us Each
We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good. Barbara Jordan
Good You People Rest Example Nation Ourselves Tell Must Hypocritical Call Uphold Official Common Common Good Public Public Servants Servants Set
Our nation's commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm to think of education funding as investments made in individual children, not in institutions or buildings. Betsy DeVos
Education Good Quality Commitment Made Nation Every Think Our Paradigm Must Individual Investments Institutions Quality Education Buildings Shift Provide Accordingly Child Common Children Common Good Public Serve Funding
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die. Bob Dylan
People Equality About Only Talk Die Going Common The Only Thing Really Thing
I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so. Che Guevara
Me Face Earth Married Married Couple Worthy Would Given More Wipe Bourgeois Employed Institutions Couple Than Whale Common
My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding. Dalai Lama
Education Hope Religion Experience Sense Field Introduce Finding About Main Sort Scientific Modern Common Modern Education Then Based Eventually
Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. George Seaton
Faith You Sense Tells Common Common Sense Believing Things
A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world. Haniel Long
Friendship World Wolf Members Attack Know Another Same Common Energies Pack Use Gang United Bond Desire
I'm a practical person. Most fashion people live in the clouds, and they're full of it. I live like a human being - or, I try to - and I have to be intelligent; I have to be practical. I'm a great believer in common sense, and the older I get, I see that common sense is not that common. Iris Apfel
Fashion Great People Human Being Clouds Try Sense Live Older Great Believer See Like Most Practical Intelligent Person Get Human Common Being Common Sense Full Believer
If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst. Joan Crawford
Good You Sense Analyst Ounce Friend Common Common Sense Good Friend Need
Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness. Jonathan Sacks
Best Good Religion Community Relationships Citizenship Religious About Something Self Tenor Towards Within Altruism Makes Common Common Good Us Creates Turns Away
Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common. Mitchell Zuckoff
Money Every One Thing Easy Driven Common The One Thing Thing Desire
The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes. Niccolo Machiavelli
Natural Men Wish Mistakes Ability Admittedly Rather More Costs Always Praised Condemnation Condemned Very Than Lack Common Want Succeed Acquire Deserve Thing
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. Ogden Nash
Family Animal Women Men Cold Composed Only Occasional Common Children Unit
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. Oscar Wilde
Too Late People Mistakes Sense Too Late Only Never Most Sort Discover Die Common Common Sense Regrets Things Creeping
I think a common misconception about a small town in rural America is that everyone believes the same way, and nothing could be further from the truth. Ree Drummond
Truth Nothing Think Everyone Way Further Rural Rural America About Small Misconception Could Small Town Town America Same Common Believes
What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love. Richard Gere
Love Kindness Appreciation Compassion Religions Towards Lean Common
Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness. Robert Casey
Good Man Political Political Power Power Sense Tried Powerlessness Felt Any Common Common Good Use Who Ever Awful
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. Samuel Butler
People Sense Live Rarely Atmosphere Uncommon Aristocratic Academic Reach Common Common Sense Them
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