Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Chalmers

It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

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.

Terry Pratchett

Magicians and scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangely, live in a world of their own, speak a specialized language and frequently make statements that appear to be in flagrant breach of common sense have nothing in common with a group of people who often dress strangely, speak a specialized language, live in ... er ...

Terrence Howard

If we [black people] do not show up and support the march towards cinematic equality, the march towards being on a level at - we don't even have to be higher than whites, but to be viewed in the same common thread of this is a professional, these are stories that people are interested in, instead of being fed the same old BS dogma that's been fed and the studios have used.

Randy Hultgren

There certainly are some good aspects to Common Core.

Thomas Jefferson

Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

I'm a common-sense kind of guy.

William Boyd

I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that this is all our lives - this is the one fact that applies to us all, that makes us what we are, our common mortality, our common humanity. One day someone is going to come and take us away: you don't need to have been a spy, I thought, to feel like this.

William Carey

...even on the low ground of common sense I seemed to be called to be a missionary. Is the kingdom a harvest field? Then I thought it reasonable that I should seek to work where the work was most abundant and the workers fewest.

Vladimir Putin

We had a very good situation in 2005. The common budget had a volume of 80 billion dollars per year. Thousands of jobs were created in Germany by Russian investments. At the same time, a large number of German companies invested in Russia. There were countless cultural and social contacts.