Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Vilsack

Your poll suggests to me . . . that we've lost a sense of community in this country, ... It is important that we have that common thread.

This is an example of his excellent management of Steve Jobs, and finding common ground between Disney's objectives and Jobs' objectives.

David Johnson

This is going to be more and more a common practice.

This is not common at all. This is a very unusual occurrence for us.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Life sure is easier when you're rich." "And a natural born charmer. Don't forget that part." "How could I?" she retorted. "It's the only thing we have in common.

Sting

There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.

Peter O'Toole

The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead.

Temple Grandin

Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior.

Sha Zukang

The MDGs have been a fundamental framework for global development. A clear agenda, with measurable goals and targets, and a common vision have been crucial for this success. There is now an expectation around the world that sooner, rather than later, all these goals can and must be achieved.

Len Goodman

I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me it's something I'm doing.

Stephen King

Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent.

Marcus Aurelius

If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it? And what is the harm to the common weal?

Marcus Aurelius

Let every action aim solely at the common good.

Talib Kweli

Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense

Suzy Kassem

Speak kind words to mankind and the unkind will attack you. Speak common sense using all your senses, and you will attacked by the senseless. Speak truth and you will be attacked by the untruthful. Speak about absolutely nothing and absolutely nothing will speak back, but then nothing at all will ever change.

Robert A. Heinlein

Sense is never common.

Steven Seagal

Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important.

Tom Stoppard

I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.

Tina Turner

If you take care of yourself, 60 is nothing for women these days. In today's world you can be the kind of woman you want to be ... Of course, I've aged a bit in the face, but not enough to worry about it. I've common sense enough to know that if I'm nearly 70 something has to give.

Tom Robbins

Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.

Tom Bodett

I come from very common stock, and I've always been uncomfortable with pretension and all the forms it can take, including disingenuous broadcasting.

Stuart Chase

Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat.

Richard Aldington

A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.

Josiah Warren

It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense is as rare as genius.

Sean William Scott

I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks.

Lin Yutang

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

Craig Smith

an extremely unusual result of a common process.

a notable victory for reason and common sense over intolerance and extremism.

Elevator fatalities are just not a common occurrence.

Electrical power is the common factor to all those problems.

Paul Parker

Even as the sport evolves into different kinds of riders in different environments, there still seems to be a common thread that makes us a community.