Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jorge Sampaio

We have a common responsibility to contribute to a fairer world where all human beings, whatever their race, sex or creed, can enjoy a decent life, ... We have a common interest in warranting peace and security in Europe and in the world, ensuring the prosperity of our economies and defense of our values.

Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.

This type of restrictions are not common in town houses or single-family developments.

This will be a common feature of plans over the next few years.

There have even been rumors that mathematics is used in economics (and in other social sciences) either for the deliberate purpose of mystification or to confer dignity upon common places as French was once used in diplomatic communications.

There has been that common thought that because (offers of aid) are not tapped immediately, they're not prudently used.

There is a common trait in teams at this point in the season that they seem to sit back and wait for somebody to win the game for them. And we had too many of our players waiting for someone to win the game.

Gerhard Schroder

A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.

Chris Rock

When I started out in comedy, it was common knowledge that it took about 10 years to get good. And that was okay because it took you about 9 years to get on television.

I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.

It's not a common thing for a Southern white family to go out and seek their black cousins.

Joschka Fischer

There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system.

I'm an artist and an engineer, which is, increasingly, a more common kind of hybrid. But I still fall into this weird crack where people don't seem to understand me.

Thomas Reid

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.

Stephen Parker

We're looking at a lot of runoff. People should use their common sense.

Clayton Christensen

We have found that companies need to speak a common language because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are seemingly counterintuitive. If companies don't have that common language, it is hard for them to come to consensus on a counterintuitive course of action.

Sha Zukang

We do have a lot of common interests with the U.S.. We want to be their friend. We want to have good relations with them.

(We) found very little evidence for the efficacy of these over-the-counter cough preparations for cough due to the common cold.

With regard to the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula I think it conforms to the common interest of all parties involved to move forward the six-party talks process.

This year it's been a common goal to win as a team and not as individuals. Everyone is sharing in the success.

This year is, by common consent, the most political Fringe for a long time. It's not just theater. It's the comedians, dance, musical theater ? we've got musicals about the war on terror.

Ernest Bevin

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

Kim Stanley Robinson

When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave déjà vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal.

Nick Offerman

There's a lot of common sense ... which I feel like we have lost touch with.

Mark Twain

Love heightens all senses - except the common.

Natasha Bedingfield

The common denominator is a love of music.

Mikhail Bakunin

Christianity is the complete negation of common sense and sound reason.

For the first time in a generation, the Legislature is talking about fixing the state's crumbling infrastructure. Everyone should come together and work toward a common goal. This is not about politics.

Ivan Misner

Success is the uncommon application of common knowledge

Oswald Chambers

The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations.

Paul Rusesabagina

This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency.

Mitt Romney

People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many differences in creed and theology. Surely the answer is that we can meet in service, in shared moral convictions about our nation stemming from a common worldview.

Nelson Mandela

We are extricating ourselves from a system that insulted our common humanity by dividing us from one another on the basis of race and setting us against each other as oppressed and oppressor. That system committed a crime against humanity.