Famous Quotes & Sayings

There is no such thing as common sense. It's not common because everyone is different, and everyone has different life experiences. ... Many people just don't have any frame of reference or experience when it comes to understanding the Islands and our environment.

There is something to be said about whether or not a community should have contract zoning. A community needs to figure out what it wants where, and at what kind of scale, and then zone for that. I think people are interested in a common playing field. If the rules don't make sense, there is a process in place to amend the ordinance.

Jacque Fresco

What is needed is the intelligent management of Earth's resources. If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems, we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people.

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.

Sha Zukang

We do have a lot of common interests with the U.S.. We want to be their friend. We want to have good relations with them.

This will be a common feature of plans over the next few years.

There have even been rumors that mathematics is used in economics (and in other social sciences) either for the deliberate purpose of mystification or to confer dignity upon common places as French was once used in diplomatic communications.

There has been that common thought that because (offers of aid) are not tapped immediately, they're not prudently used.

There is a common trait in teams at this point in the season that they seem to sit back and wait for somebody to win the game for them. And we had too many of our players waiting for someone to win the game.

Madeleine Albright

The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.

There is no one to sweep a common hall

Otherwise, it's totally new code. But there's a common idea,

People are starting to realize that a consensual deal is good for the company. There is a deal to be done, we just have to hope that everyone can come to a common view.

Our goal was to improve patient satisfaction. The most common complaint we heard from patients was that the check-in process was too cumbersome.

Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.

Our results suggest that waves in excess of 90 feet are not rogue waves but actually are fairly common during hurricanes.

Our goal isn't to dumb down the rules. It's to use some common sense in what we regulate.

Our friendship was for a common cause- secularism.

Vladimir Putin

Our two countries share a common position on the international strategic balance, ... In the world today, in the international situation, this position is very important.

Our young friend makes up for many obvious mental lacunae by some measure of primitive common sense, remarked Challenger.

Jane Green

Melanoma is not the most common of skin cancers, but it is the most dangerous if not found in the early stages.

Me kicking back and relaxing with an O-State guy, that used to be unheard of. But now, we're on common ground.

Carrie Brownstein

I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind.

Joe Royle

It is a victory for common sense and obviously we are delighted to have Ricardo with us again.

Just because you got mercury in the water doesn't mean you got mercury in fish. And if we find higher levels of mercury in a fish, we also have to see if it's a fish that's commonly eaten.

Russell Mark

I think common sense has prevailed and this is good news for competitors.

George Simpson

Such gradual transformation is also fairly well exemplified for subfamilies and occasionally for families, as the groups are commonly ranked.

My strength is my technique. I have a good idea of when it's the right time to throw and I am shooting well (escaping), which is not common for a heavyweight. When I am on the bottom, I am really good of getting out of that situation.

My opinion was that if we had a common enemy we should get together commonly.

Nationally, I think it will be a common cold, if you will.

David Satcher

Many experts think hopelessness is common to suicide and homicide and violence in general,

Sam Perkins

Massachusetts pharmacies are required to stock all medications that are commonly prescribed to meet the usual needs of the community.

Paul Stamets

Lion's mane mushrooms are not your classic-looking cap-and-stem variety. These globular-shaped mushrooms sport cascading teeth-like spines rather than the more common gills.