Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Blair

We discuss issues very frankly between us, whether it is to do with human rights or democracy. For example, we discussed the issue of Chechnya. However, the relationship between us is important in terms of our common interest,

Zong Qinghou

We don't need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.

The most common phrase bandied about these days is 'Oh my God'. People say it automatically all the time - not realising that that's a form of prayer.

Louis D. Brandeis

What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech.

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

Aesop

Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.

Vikas Swarup

Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.

Jim Carrey

What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Bo Burnham

I've always liked TV shows that have slightly unlikable leads, where you root for them in spite of a lot of things. I know it's not common with shows with young people; they have to be so likable. But, I mean, teenagers just generally aren't very likable. I know I wasn't as a teenager.

Aristotle

To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

Steven Pinker

A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature.

God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.

Gavin Hood

The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.

Warren Christopher

Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.

Arthur Henderson

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved.

Algernon Sidney

Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.

Ben Affleck

Anxiety is a kind of fuel that activates the fight-or-flight part of the brain in me. It makes sure that a velociraptor isn't around the corner and that you do as much as you possibly can to survive. Because Hollywood has a lot in common with 'Jurassic Park' and its primeval-dinosaur universe.

Ben Carson

We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.

Tim Crouch

Each of my Shakespeare pieces is different to the other, but each espouses a set of philosophies common to all my theatre work.

The concept of evolution postulates that living organisms have common roots, and in turn, the existence of common features is powerful support for the concept of evolution.

Hanna Rosin

Transsexualism is far less common than homosexuality, and the research is in its infancy. Scattered studies have looked at brain activity, finger size, familial recurrence, and birth order.

Pope John

We ardently desire their return to the house of the common Father they will not enter a strange house but their own.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Rice and vermicelli is a common combination in Arab and Turkish cooking - it has a lighter texture than rice on its own.

Arlo Guthrie

People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, they were so common it was just uncommon.

Wale

I can take an opinion, but I don't like when you try and spew hate and contaminate the way other people think. I feel like I'm one of the people that's always made music for the common man. That's why I don't really live my life the way I could. I don't stunt as much as I could stunt, 'cause that's not who my music is for.

Guy Gavriel Kay

I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator in all of them.

This wouldn't be common at all. I saw that buckle on the east side of the roof -- 8 to 10 inches. That's the first time I've ever seen anything like that.

We have a lot more in common than we think.

Shaun Alexander

We have a lot in common and we do definitely resemble each other and definitely do all sound a little alike, but I'm definitely the tallest, better looking of the three. It's a curse that I have on my triplet brothers.

While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs.

Martha Beck

The most common reason we stumble into the delusion of powerlessness is that we're afraid of what other people would do or say or feel if we were to act as we wanted.

Patrick Carman

Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.