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The terrorists whatever slogans they use have nothing in common with Islam. -- Nursultan Nazarbayev
Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them. -- Joni Mitchell
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. -- David Byrne
Hypnotism is trespass into the territory of another's consciousness. Its temporary phenomena have nothing in common with the miracles performed by men of divine realization. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common. -- Douglas Coupland
I tell stories about people audiences might think they have nothing in common with, then they emotionally connect with them and find they're not different at all. -- Gurinder Chadha
A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common. -- Klaus Schulze
We've gotten to the point now where Republicans and Democrats have nothing in common besides being members of the 'caustic caucus,' and we can't get anything done. -- Emanuel Cleaver
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual. -- William Robertson Smith
I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common with somebody - we can still talk because we were raised by the same TV and cartoons and movies. -- Ernest Cline
When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me - I'm 43, balding, blond, whatever - there's something absolutely invigorating about winning them over. Even if it's eight people from Sweden who don't understand what I'm talking about. -- Jim Gaffigan
The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White House butler Gene Allen, except for the fact that the main character of the film and Allen were both black butlers in the White House. -- Ben Shapiro
Morality has nothing in common with politics. -- Bob Dylan
They had nothing in common but the English language. -- E. M. Forster
Being nationalistic in France has nothing in common with being patriotic in America. -- Thomas Bangalter
There is nothing in common between al-Assad and ISIS, they fight against each other. -- Vladimir Putin
The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism. -- Henry James
Dorian Yates and I have nothing in common, physically speaking. He's a Volkswagen; I'm a Porsche. -- Shawn Ray
I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them. -- Milan Kundera
Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West. -- Mahatma Gandhi
How about it's Hillary Clinton, she doesn't connect with people? How about they have nothing in common with her? -- Kellyanne Conway
Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
You pick people, and they pick you sometimes. It's especially great to connect with people you think you have nothing in common with. -- Aleksandra Mir
It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago. -- Eugenie Clark
The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me. -- Michel de Montaigne
There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him... It has nothing in common with anything created. -- Meister Eckhart
I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses. -- Kobe Bryant
In contrast, traditional Catholic churches serve vast numbers of people who have little or nothing in common, and they are often impersonal supermarkets for the sacraments. -- Penny Lernoux
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude -- Alexis de Tocqueville
If you have nothing in common with the person you are dating and his parents hate you and your friends hate him, this is not romantic; it's a bad idea. -- Amy E. Spiegel
It seems like a dangerous concept to have someone who's just your drinking buddy. Someone you have nothing in common with, if you're sober, is probably not a good, healthy friendship. -- Olivia Wilde
Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you're human. -- Alain de Botton
The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life. -- Leo Tolstoy
The zero-sum world [the movie The Social Network] portrayed has nothing in common with the Silicon Valley I know, but I suspect it's a pretty accurate portrayal of the dysfunctional relationships that dominate Hollywood. -- Peter Thiel
On second marriage: It took me by surprise, too, because overnight, we totally changed. I think one day we had just nothing in common. And it's scary but I think it can happen when you get involved and you don't know yourself yet. -- Angelina Jolie
What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery. -- Epictetus
No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. -- John Mortimer
Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another. -- Milan Kundera
In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color. -- Toni Morrison
If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common. -- Tommy Lee Jones
Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows. -- Robert Fortune
Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death. -- John Pearson
Nothing common can seem worthy of you. -- Augustus
Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential. -- Howard G. Hendricks
Nothing great ever came out of common sense. -- Josephine Tey
Nothing brings you together like a common enemy. -- David Foster Wallace
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Nothing can match the treasure of common memories ... -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense. -- Thomas Huxley
Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. -- Calvin Coolidge
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent. -- Joe Strummer
Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation. -- Pierre-Simon Laplace
Nothing is unattainable when America comes together around a common cause. -- Alma Powell
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to) -- William Shakespeare
Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived. -- Johann Gottfried Seume
Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions. -- William Hazlitt
Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia. -- Napoleon Hill
If two or three agree on a common purpose, nothing is impossible. -- Jim Rohn
There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do. -- Marcus Garvey
Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected. -- Samuel Johnson
It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense. -- Thomas Chalmers
Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Nothing succeeds like persistence. The common denominator of all successful people is their persistence. -- Roger Delano Hinkins
Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons. -- Voltaire
Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured. -- Charlotte Lennox
Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something. -- Anton Chekhov
Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable. -- Colleen Hoover
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. -- Voltaire
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. -- Voltaire
The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all. -- Seth Godin
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. -- George Santayana
Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don't change governments during war. -- Harvey Fierstein
All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education. -- Karl Jaspers
The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. -- Marcus Aurelius
I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18... -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still. -- Thales
There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism. -- Jacques Maritain
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen. -- Albert Einstein
In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication. -- Calvin Coolidge
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. -- Rene Descartes
He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try. -- Andrew Marvell
I hold to nothing but envisioning international peace and utopia. We all have many more things in common than not. -- Roseanne Barr
There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war. -- Carl von Clausewitz
Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Like all school students, I think I did a play in my school. The common things, I would say. Nothing really exceptional. -- Isabelle Huppert
The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness. -- Rudolf Steiner
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. -- Calvin Coolidge
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for. -- Banksy
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for. -- John Henry Newman
Overcoming fear has nothing to do with abandoning common sense. We retain our common sense, but we lose that emotion that is fear. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason. -- Edward Coke
What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness. -- James Anthony Froude
Is your division of Understanding into Greater and Lesser common to all Sufis? Nothing which is put into words is common to all Sufis. -- Idries Shah
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community. -- Thomas Aquinas
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason. -- Edward Coke
Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up. -- William Cowper
Nothing is so common as to see a political upheaval pass practically unnoticed merely because the names of the leaders and their parties remain the same. -- Constant Lambert
The immense success of our life is, I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it. -- Virginia Woolf
The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity. -- Albert Pike
You must remember that the common criminal will always join the armed forces for, if nothing else, regular meals and expert training in the use of guns. -- Warren Ellis
It's always hard when you've known a person a long time and then you have to recognise that you have nothing left in common but your memories. -- Eva Heller
The only way forward is in the direction of a common passion, for nothing in the universe can ultimately resist the cumulative ardor of the collective soul. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything is impermanent. -- Stephen Levine
do something from nothing for nothing is nothing unless it is made something. There is always something common with something and nothing and that is the 'thing -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper. -- Thomas Carlyle
The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman. -- Karl Lagerfeld
The editors are committed to nothing save this: to keep common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably as possible, to give civilized entertainment. -- H. L. Mencken
No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone. -- Mark Haddon
It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials. -- Benjamin Haydon
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.Genius will not; un-rewarded genius is almost a proverb. -- Calvin Coolidge

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