Uncommon Quotations | Page 2

It's not uncommon at all of town meetings to have warrant articles for voters to vote on that are not legally binding. It happens all the time.

It's not uncommon for a complex investigation to last six to 18 months.

It's not uncommon for aircraft to have problems with their landing gear. This isn't unique to this particular aircraft.

It's not uncommon for organized crime groups, bikers or anyone else to eliminate some of their members. There are disputes off all kinds, power struggles.

It's not uncommon for people to overvalue the importance of demonstrating their competence and power, often at the expense of demonstrating their warmth.

It's not uncommon for private schools across the nation to hold kids back for a year, normally in the intermediate age, ... It's for academic reasons, emotional, physical reasons, to fully develop the child. It wasn't to gain an athletic advantage. It was to develop the study habits to succeed in college.

It's not uncommon for some of the tests that are taken, particularly in early disease, for them to be negative.

It's not uncommon for these types of scams or crimes around this time of the year.

It's not uncommon for us to have to go back to square one and get the evidence that we need to successfully prosecute these cases.

It's not uncommon that sharks are all over the place and we're swimming right near them and we don't even know.

It's not uncommon that the uninsured losses can be greater than the insured losses.

It's not uncommon through a normal year to lose a plane. John Q Public needs to understand that we do have accidents. It's usually in the first eight minutes up and in the last eight minutes down.

It's not uncommon to have somebody look good today, look terrible tomorrow, look good the next day.

It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus.

It is uncommon that there is ever really free will ... Ninety-nine out of 100 times, it's not free will. It is very difficult to confirm will, and I am concerned that when an army unit comes at night, no one will refuse to collaborate, out of fear.

It's a pattern not uncommon in disaster areas. These people come in and acquire local companies, making the most of the reputations of those companies.

It's a little uncommon to see a press release like that. The only precedent is the Oracle/PeopleSoft deal from a year ago, when PeopleSoft felt Oracle was being unresponsive. Clearly there's a communication issue here.

It's not an uncommon fee. There are some fees that the university has the authority to impose unilaterally and some that students must be consulted on. Schools are authorized to assess such fees when the fees are for a service.

Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.

That's one of those runs that definitely caught me off guard. That's one of those that brings you out of your seat. What I always understood about running is that a lot of it had to do with vision and reaction and responding to what you see. He is an uncommon threat.

Tony was widely admired by his peers both here and across the country. He possessed an uncommon passion for our craft and was always eager to share his storehouse of knowledge with colleagues.

It is unfortunately not uncommon for judges to be sued. There's current litigation against them in which they are being sued in their official capacity ... in fact the city attorney's office is representing them.

It is so uncommon for senior military officers in the United States to criticize civilian leaders that it has to make an impression on the White House and Congress.

It's a fact that these perceptions lag reality -- it's not terribly uncommon for the economy to be doing better and better when you get to election day, but people feel the economy's in a funk. The latest example of that was Bush's father.

The most common incidents among these uncommon incidents involve swinging on game. But it?s also your responsibility to know what?s beyond your target. Plan your hunt and hunt your plan.

There's another big sack out there. Twenty-five pound sacks are not uncommon any time of year down here ? so it's wide open for about six or seven guys, I think.

This low rate cycle has been going on for three years now. It's not uncommon to see people who've refinanced two or three times over this cycle.

He possessed an uncommon passion for our craft and was always eager to share his storehouse of knowledge with colleagues. He inspired us as he refused to yield to the effects of his disease and continued his tireless work ethic until recent weeks. He leaves us with many fond memories of his unforgettable character. And for that, I know, we are all grateful to have been touched by his life.

Common sense is very uncommon.

It is not uncommon to suppose that the free exchange of property in markets and capitalism are one and the same. They are not. While capitalism operates through the free market, free markets don't require capitalism.

Success is the uncommon application of common knowledge

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.

It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.

Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy.

It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line.

Great dreams... never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in.

When you release your faith in uncommon ways, youll see God do uncommon things.