Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth McClung

We're major league pitchers. It's one-and-one, you understand. You want to get ahead. You have to play common sense-wise." ()

We're going to see $3 a gallon gas quite commonly in the next week or so,

Beth Gibbons

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

Bill Watterson

I've got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.

Mel Martinez

We're going to have to find a place where we can all land. What we're all trying to find is something that is common ground enough to get the majority of Republicans on board.

Pervez Musharraf

We regard terrorism as an evil that threatens the world community. All countries must join hands in this common cause,

Leon Panetta

The United States, and the president's made this clear, does not want Iran to develop a nuclear weapon. That's a red line for us. And it's a red line obviously for the Israelis so we share a common goal here.

Bill Murray

You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.

Bill Murray

Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.

Benjamin Spock

Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

Benjamin Spock

Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

Carolyn Wells

Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

Agnes Repplier

The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.

Unstructured information is common to just about every industry. This story has legs to support investors for quite a long time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.

There are common lessons for us to learn from our own UK study and from the study just released by the AAUW. First, these forms of victimization happen to far too many students: female and male, from all walks of life, and from all races and ethnicities. The second discomforting similarity is that most students who have these experiences do not tell.

Kenneth Fisher

What is the most common investor mistake? Trading - getting in and getting out at all the wrong times, for all the wrong reasons.

When we do stargazing, we stare at the stars...and many other things which we have presumed commonly as stars.

Franz Kafka

What have I in common with Jews? I have hardly anything in common with myself

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.

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.

At the executive level, inflating responsibilities and falsifying degrees are two common resume lies,

At this stage it's, I believe, a very solvable problem ... and common sense should prevail there.

That's common nature for guys wanting to come in and do everything they can do for the team in their senior year, their last year. There's no guarantee we'll be playing tomorrow, so every time he hits the field, he just goes all out.

Edmund Stoiber

The key to integration is a common language and that happens to be German here -- and we can demand that.

Jody Williams

The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims. In common parlance, it is the perfect soldier, the 'eternal sentry.' The war ends, the landmine goes on killing.