Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Lawson

The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented an infallible Stratagem to purge their Tribe, and reduce their Multitude into far less Numbers.

Bob Dylan

a giant, a great, great soul, with all of the humanity, all of the wit and humor, all the wisdom, the spirituality, the common sense of a man and compassion for people.

Phil McGraw

Common sense needs to be more common.

Vincent Van Gogh

And sometimes there is relief, sometimes there is new inner energy, and one stands up after it; till at last, someday, one perhaps doesn't stand up any more, que soit, but that is nothing extraordinary, and I repeat, in my opinion, such is the common

All the speakers have some connection to the Vatican and have different insights on a common theme.

All the shells are cut out of the same sphere, ... and now all have a common denominator.

The goal of the meeting is to reach a common position that will be expressed in a text of a 'presidential statement' of the U.N. Security Council drafted by the participants.

The gift is a testament to the common interest of the Moore School of Business, the university and Wachovia to increase student diversity through innovative recruiting and retention programs.

Jose Manuel Barroso

The dynamic of globalisation in financial and economic terms, but also in geopolitical terms, confronts Europeans with a stark choice: live together, share a common destiny and count in the world; or face the prospect of disunity and decline.

David Harsanyi

The Founding Fathers worried that 'some common impulse of passion' might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.

The current anti-doping rules lack any notion of common sense. ... He had a well-documented reason for the positive test. It had nothing to do with performance enhancement.

The current anti-doping rules lack any notion of common sense.

The clampdown on money laundering and corruption is the common responsibility of all the countries in the world.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a common purpose: to eradicate these ills for the benefit of all. And we share a common tool to achieve this: the Millennium Development Goals.

Emily Dickinson

Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.

Ellen Page

I find a lot of people say, "Oh organic and local's expensive and I just don't have time." And I'm like, well how much TV do you watch? Where are your priorities right now? I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it's common sense.

Ellen Page

I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it's common sense.

The disbelief look was a common look that I saw. People just don't think that it can be done.

All these have a common denominator - all are brutal.

All the offerings share the common good of dramatically improving recovery point objectives vs. traditional nightly full or incremental backups. Continuous data protection vs. near-CDP might mean the difference between recovery points of 1 second or 1 hour. Either is much better than what we do today.

All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at the expense of the majority.

Jonathan Winters

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

Kelley Armstrong

Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we've been formally introduced.

Napoleon Hill

Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia.

Joe Barton

I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.

Joan Blades

Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.

Llewelyn Powys

The world is in need of less religion and more common sense.

Gagan Narang

Now I know the difference between a rousing reception and a pat on the back. Now I know the difference between a gold in Commonwealth Games and a bronze in Olympics.

Fred Thompson

Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks.

John McAfee

If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network.

John Masefield

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.