Famous Quotes & Sayings

We should return to the development of common international election standards.

Joel Salatin

It's very common to implement mob grazing and double your production for a per-acre capitalisation investment... because it doesn't take any more corraling, no more electricity, rent, machinery or labour to double your production on an existing place.

The only thing which has kept Mac OS X relatively safe up until now is the fact that the market share is significantly lower than that of Microsoft Windows or the more common UNIX platforms. If this situation was to change, in my opinion, things could be a lot worse on Mac OS X than they currently are on other operating systems.

The only thing we have in common is the word history. In the past few days, our office has gotten a number of vitriolic e-mails.

Andrzej Wajda

In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Jalal Talabani

The president is representing the sovereignty of Iraq. He has the right to oversee all common issues of Iraq.

George Bernard Shaw

Two peoples separated by a common language' - About the Americans and English

The reason we have got a lot of that in this town is because it's so common because of the casinos. I think there is some bleed-over of that to other businesses.

Jack Abramoff

The reason there are tens of thousands of lobbyists is because the ever-expanding federal government creates ever-increasing opportunities for abuse. The more the federal government does, the more lobbyists there will be to protect special interests at the expense of the common interest.

Experience join'd with common sense, to mortals is a providence

Fairly common sense, straightforward stuff. Who can disagree with that?

False positives are actually very common. They're particularly common for programs that aren't widely distributed, like some game.

Peter Baynham

It's a fairly common phenomenon of London life - people having fully developed critiques of books they haven't read and films they haven't seen. I'd probably include myself in that.

Peter Beard

I've never gotten a release from any person. I'm not a businessman; I'm on the side of common sense. Releases ruin the atmosphere of photography.

The good thing about this is it shows that planets this size might be quite common in habitable zones.

We wanted 12 intelligent people with a lot of common sense. Boy, it looks like we got what we wanted. It's an ideal jury.

We have discussed the elements of this proposal and our common position on this matter is that we have made progress.

David Packard

I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.

Adam Rodriguez

A common sense of humour and a love of music is really important, as I love all types of music. You name me any genre, and I can give you a list of artists I adore.

Miguel Nicolelis

Eventually, brain implants will become as common as heart implants. I have no doubt about that.

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

We seem to have a whole lot in common as women, and as mothers, so that's pretty interesting.

We're talking with the NRA to see if there's any common ground we can reach. But it's going to be a far reach.

Abigail Washburn

I do see music as complete refuge. It's a universal home, complete common ground between everyone; it comes from a place that has no nation and no boundaries around it.

The GOP leaders are upset with me, but the Republicans around the district are thanking me for stepping up to the plate and giving them a choice in this election of a real common sense conservative Reagan Republican.

Alex Berenson

At first glance, Martha Stewart, queen of artfully distressed home furnishings, might not seem to have much in common with Michael R. Milken, one-time king of junk bonds.

Billy Horschel

When somebody doesn't use common sense, I get frustrated. When I'm driving down the highway and someone is in the left-hand lane, and they're going very slow, sometimes I just go around them, and other times I'll be in the mood where I flash my lights and yell at them, like, 'What the heck are you doing? Get the heck out of my way!'

Basil Bunting

Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.

William Wordsworth

Turning, for them who pass, the common dustOf servile opportunity to gold.

Darren Sharper

When you have talented players, it's a matter of time. You're going to start to play well. Early in the season, we didn't have everyone executing what they needed to do. We didn't have a common cord, doing things as one. We have that now.

Donald Tsang

We and our mainland compatriots are of the same blood. We share a common interest and destiny. We ride on the same boat.

There are hundreds of us. Our common denominator is Gladys Morris.

Glenn Greenwald

A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.