Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane von Furstenberg

Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear.

David Deutsch

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.

Alan Chadwick

Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

Alan Cooper

There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.

Chinua Achebe

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

Ben Nelson

Somewhere along the line common sense should prevail,.

Juvenal

Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank.

Catherine the Great

The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.

Darryl Sutter

When you're young like that, you just have to stick to those things that you do really, really well. With a player like that, it's never a mistake or a flaw in his game, it's just about how he harnesses it and challenges it.

Alan Shepard

Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.

Alan Kay

If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

Lynda DeLaforgue

There are a lot of challenges for people who are low income. There are significant resources being put in by drug companies, and millions of consumers are benefiting from these programs. This is just a good excuse for them to get out of those programs.

Carly Fiorina

The people of HP can execute, and they've proven it. Think about the challenges these employees have had to face up to and overcome: a very difficult economic environment worldwide; an industry undergoing a rapid transformation; intense competition; and a distracting proxy contest that none of us could have predicted, but one that we are determined to win.

Richard Paul Evans

I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.

Tracy Pollan

Everybody has their challenges; I couldn't say that we have more challenges than other people, they're just different.

Brian Weiss

Sometimes the most evolved souls take the most challenging paths

Brande Roderick

The challenges surrounding HIV and AIDS are getting more complex and mature, and we just can't stick our heads in the sand and say 'it can't happen to me.'

Jason Chaffetz

I've always viewed Mitt Romney as a very conservative person.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.

Benjamin Graham

Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed.

Brian Sandoval

Fiscally I’m very conservative … others say that I’m socially moderate,

Charles Krauthammer

I distrust all multiculturalism, liberal or conservative. The Balkans amply demonstrate the perils of Balkanization.

Edward Abbey

A true conservative must necessarily be a conservationalist.

Will Durant

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

Benjamin Disraeli

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.

Don Rickles

I grew up in an Orthodox family, as I grew older, I became Conservative and that's how it ended up. But I've developed that Jewish feel to my act from my surroundings and my family.