Regardless of what the future holds, intelligent investment in common stocks offer a solid route for a reasonable return on investment going forward.
I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.
There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.
If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.
Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain.
Observation and thinking are the two points of departure for all the spiritual striving of man, insofar as he is conscious of such striving. The workings of common sense, as well as the most complicated scientific researches, rest on these two fundamental pillars of our spirit.
I think the language of sacrifice is particularly important for societies like the United States in which war remains our most determinative common experience, because states like the United States depend on the story of our wars for our ability to narrate our history as a unified story.
I have a song called 'Decisions' that features Jamie Foxx, Mary J. Blige, John Legend and Common. It's about people who have made a decision to really stand by you as friends.
Everybody's got a story on their beards. I guess it's just a way of finding common ground with people you otherwise might not know.
But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish.
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
The Russian Federation and the United States of America, the two biggest nuclear powers in the world, but apart from nuclear-wise, we have a lot in common. We have huge territories, natural resources, technologies, science, education, and of course human capital.
It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.
Absence - that common cure of love.
In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
Uncommon valor was a common virtue.
Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them.
When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
Growing up in a family of actors, what's great about it is that they're very supportive and they understand what it's like to be an actor - the rejections, the highs and lows... and having a common language with them is great because you have shorthand speech.
Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
To be treated well in places where you don't expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can't be a bad thing.
Probably the most common question I get is, 'Who's your dream guest?' That's kind of annoying because there isn't one.
Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
No sin, especially no great sin, is just a harm done to the individual who commits it. I believe myself that the future of the human race is bound up with that idea. The soul that is conscious of a grievous sin is conscious of a great harm done to the community - to someone else. That common hurt should now be forgiven.
Prose is admittedly an art rooted in social intercourse, and a fiction writer is faster to find a common denominator with his cell mates than a poet is.
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.