Famous Quotes & Sayings

I would surmise that the single most common characteristic of learners today is being time-constrained.

Just spray and just do the common sense things you'd do at this time of the year.

Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

I suspect that is going to be a pretty common situation for the guys who worked the port.

I think it is common practice. This is something that other countries have done in the past. The US put such a levy in place in 1972.

I think it's just common sense, ... These are people with a propensity for service who previously served honorably and who are trained. If they want to serve, why shouldn't we offer them that opportunity? And why should we put up barriers?

I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I think it's common sense, ... Do you want to work with someone who you are attacking? You don't have to say anything. You don't have to be sleazy and make deals.

Menzies Campbell

It is a fundamental and profound disappointment. The government made a goal to have reform of the Common Agricultural Policy. All they have is promises.

It is possible that they all had common exposure to sick poultry but it is also possible there may have been human to human transmission. We don't have enough information to draw a hypothesis either way.

Here's a very simple, common sense idea - if you practice something more, you get better at it; if you can't complete everything you need to do, take more time.

John Prescott

have a great deal in common and a lot to discuss.

Hockey is steeped in our city's history and is a common touch point for Torontonians. It's time that Toronto hosted the world juniors. We know Torontonians will embrace this championship tournament, which will leave a lasting legacy for our world-class city.

If a patient doesn't have any nose symptoms and he or she is coughing, then you should not be thinking they have the common cold.

I expect these four seniors will do a very fine job of leading the team back to the state tournament, and a strong finish once we get there. But we have some talented sophomores, and it's common for one of four guys to have an off day. What we're looking for now is to see who will be that 'fifth' ? the guy who can fill in and take up the slack at that fourth spot.

For what it's worth historically, 9/11 was the news media's last great moment in terms of the public view. I'd be hesitant to say much more than that because we don't know how the public is reacting to this crisis -- whether there will be the same sense of unity and common cause. There was an immediate rally effect shortly after 9/11, and that rubbed off on the media.

I get page after page of negative balances. The most common mistake I have found is that someone receives parts at the back door and takes them to the shop floor without ever doing the computer transaction.

Robertson Davies

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual.

There is a need for a common-sense voice in Lincoln. I want to provide that voice for Lincoln County.

John Lowe

Humor is a good way, as it always has been, of drawing people in, exploiting the stereotype and finding a common ground.

Ron Gardenhire

He's pitched very well. He hasn't done anything to prove to us that he shouldn't be (in the rotation). I think common sense tells you pretty much where it is.

I wouldn't like to think of it as a divorce. I would like to think we worked together for a common good.

I wouldn't have touched that loan with a 50-foot pole. Common sense tells you that.

John Milton

Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source / Of human offspring, sole propriety / In Paradise of all things common else.

He felt comfortable in so many different situations. He had the respect of world leaders and the common man.

Maria Canals Barrera

Heels I've always loved, but a wedge is perfect, in between glamorous and a common shoe. If going to the store, why wear flip-flops when you can wear wedges?

Charlotte Gilman

The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

Blaise Pascal

Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.

Tom Stoppard

What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance?

We might have been, these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing

Bertrand Russell

Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.

Janet Yellen

Models used to describe and predict inflation commonly distinguish between changes in food and energy prices - which enter into total inflation - and movements in the prices of other goods and services - that is, core inflation.

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