Quotes about common-sense
common-sense romance enemy
Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P Oscar Wilde
common-sense political environmental
We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas. Mac Thornberry
common-sense creative way
The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the point of madness. Louis Kronenberger
common-sense sparks genius
Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius. Margaret Millar
common-sense common lost
There's a lot of common sense ... which I feel like we have lost touch with. Nick Offerman
common-sense temptation ghost
The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations. Oswald Chambers
common-sense people magic
Magicians and scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangely, live in a world of their own, speak a specialized language and frequently make statements that appear to be in flagrant breach of common sense have nothing in common with a group of people who often dress strangely, speak a specialized language, live in ... er ... Terry Pratchett
common-sense honest sometimes
Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them. Thomas Jefferson
common-sense guy common
I'm a common-sense kind of guy. Robert M. Parker, Jr.
common-sense kingdoms fields
...even on the low ground of common sense I seemed to be called to be a missionary. Is the kingdom a harvest field? Then I thought it reasonable that I should seek to work where the work was most abundant and the workers fewest. William Carey
common-sense may sound
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra. William Kingdon Clifford
common-sense challenges conservative
Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense. Ronald Reagan
common-sense prejudice common
The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind. William Hazlitt
common-sense mind desire
To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense. Wendell Berry
common-sense sticks common
Have common sense and stick to the point. W. Somerset Maugham
common-sense novelists belief
A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.
common-sense church unions
The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State. Rathe, it studiously defines the manner, the specific ways, in which there shall be no concert or union or dependency one on the other. That is the common sense of the matter. Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other. William O. Douglas