Common Quotes

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.

~ Clarence Darrow

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

~ Norman Mailer

To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things. Global betterment is a mental process, not one that requires huge sums of money or a high level of authority. Change has to be psychological. So if you want to see real change, stay persistent in educating humanity on how similar we all are than different. Don't only strive to be the change you want to see in the world, but also help all those around you see the world through commonalities of the heart so that they would want to change with you. This is how humanity will evolve to become better. This is how you can change the world. The language of the heart is mankind's main common language.

~ Suzy Kassem

There's a weird logic that explains a common truth.

~ Toba Beta

There is no UFO and also there is no alien, at least not in common mind nor reference.

~ Toba Beta

If you want to find wilier race by common sense, then you have just narrowed your searching area.

~ Toba Beta

A pineapple is a compilation of berries that grow and fuse together. When joined, they create a single fruit. And within each eyelet, contains a location where a flower may grow. I see the Creator of all existence as the crown on a pineapple, and all religions of the world as the spiky eyelets, where each eyelet symbolizes a different religion or race under the same crown. Each garden of faith may have different perspectives of God, yet every garden belongs to the same God.

~ Suzy Kassem

The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.

~ Elizabeth I

Young love is common, but that doesn't mean it's not precious.

~ Eoin Colfer

I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What do the circumstances of life matter if your dreams make you lord paramount of time and space?

~ W. Somerset Maugham

Abraham Lincoln quoted the Scriptures in an 1858 speech to the Illinois Republican Convention. He said, “ A house divided against itself cannot stand.” That, I fear, is where diversity leads. If by that term we refer to love and tolerance for peoples who are different from one another, it has great validity for us. But if by diversity we mean that all of us have been given reason to resent one another. Having no common values, heritage, commitment, or hope, then we are a nation in serious trouble.

~ James C. Dobson

We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same difference between a myth and a miracle that there is between fiction and falsehood -- between poetry and perjury. Miracles belong to the far past and the far future. The little line of sand, called the present, between the seas, belongs to common sense to the natural.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

~ نجيب محفوظ

An excerpt from:“Hypothetically Speaking”ByAnthony T. Hincks(A book about you and the world – coming soon!)If I was a savvy person, I would watch, and study mankind in order to find out where his weaknesses lay.Greed, for sure; vanity; mistrust; a tendency towards violence; fanaticism, and many other less than honorable traits and even some honorable ones which could also be used, and capitalized on.Then, once I had found his weaknesses I would act.I and some friends or family, not terms that I would usually use but ones that are more commonly used here on Earth, would start an empire.Months – Years - Millennium Who cares, for time is on my side, not yours!I would sow mistrust; magic; wisdom; knowledge, and start many religions.Why many religions?Because where would the fun be by just having one, when with a whole handful you can sow hatred; do unspeakable acts all in the name of religion. That’s a lot more fun, and, besides which, it suits my purposes.Innovation – Invention – Intelligence All of those things would come, but only at a time of my choosing.Decades would pass and then centuries. Wars would be fought. He against him. He against her. She against him. They against others.I tell you, watching something come to fruition is a hell of a lot of fun.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Common sense is one of the most unused commodities available to man.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Most people under the influence of the wrong and common belief which says that the sense of man’s life is to grow a tree, build a house and bring up a son

~ Sunday Adelaja

Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this kind of virtue has not been outlived even today. A kind of sturdy peasant simplicity, which, however, is possible in all classes and can be encountered only with respect and a smile, believes even today that everything is in good hands, namely in the hands of God; and when it maintains this proportion with the same modest certainty as it would that two and two make four, we others certainly refrain from contradicting. Why disturb THIS pure foolishness? Why darken it with our worries about man, people, goal, future? And even if we wanted to do it, we could not. They project their own honorable stupidity and goodness into the heart of things (the old God, deus myops, still lives among them!); we others — we read something else into the heart of things: our own enigmatic nature, our contradictions, our deeper, more painful, more mistrustful wisdom.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

~ Jodi Picoult

Corporate controlled governments protect the interests of the corporations and not the common people.

~ Steven Magee

It is unreasonable for the common people to expect a known corrupt legal system to protect them.

~ Steven Magee

It is the common peoples duty to police the police.

~ Steven Magee

No amount of community policing will cause the common people to accept a known corrupt police department.

~ Steven Magee

The legal system has been designed to rob the bank accounts of the common people.

~ Steven Magee

The legal system is blatantly rigged against the common people.

~ Steven Magee

While police officers who blatantly shaft the common people believe that they are God, they are the Devil to those that they wrong.

~ Steven Magee

It has been my personal experience that the government engages in a wide range of frauds with the common people.

~ Steven Magee

The common goal of leaders is to increase the value and productivity of people. Leaders inspire others to do better than they would have done when not inspired.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders do not play a what if game. They believe it will be and work it to be! Success is scarce because fear is common.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of them in the whole world, and that's all there's ever going to be. Only a dummy would give this up for something as common money. Are you a dummy?

~ Roald Dahl

I am the common person researching the invisible world for the benefit of the global masses.

~ Steven Magee

CoMMOn SeNSe iS nOt sO cOmMOn aMoNg coMMon pEOPLe...

~ Deols

Do what is uncommon, do it in the uncommon way

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human and recoignizable.

~ Clarice Lispector

They say instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of clichés, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising. However, who has not hung on a scripture, a quote, a statement, only to stumble upon the key phrase that brought all things to a turning point? The greatest sermons and speeches were pieced together by illuminating thoughts that powered men to surpass their own commonness. It is the sparkling magic of letters forming words, and those words colliding with passion, that makes statements into wisdom.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The miracle is that the brilliance of the miraculous can live in the blandness of the mundane. The greater miracle is that we have enough brilliance in our own blandness to see it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Whether people see you as a shadow or as an invisible or stupid sort of thing, a time will come when that Image of yours will never be seen by commoners.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

LOVE is made up of a strong affection and patience whiles LUST is made up of a strong affection and impatience. Affection is common to them, but patience is not common.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Take the unpopular route. Use the road no one travels by. Think of doing what is uncommon but remarkable. You have absolutely nobody to overtake you on the empty road!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Come out with your unique signal and don’t always be compelled to go the common way. That is called innovation.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Never keep long and be waiting. Waiters and quitters have just a slight difference but a common end.

~ Israelmore Ayivor