Common Quotes · Page 88

Sex had been amazing, but it wasn't a magical cure for everything. Damn. Somewhere along the way, I'd picked up common sense.

— Richelle Mead

We will never win this war until we understand the effect that Guantanamo Bay has had on the overall war effort. And…

— Lindsey Graham

The greatest results in life are usually attained by common sense and perseverance.

— Owen Feltham

Because of mathematics precise, formal character, mathematical arguments remain sound even when they are long and complex. In contast, common sense arguments…

— Jacob T. Schwartz

The King saw them with no common satisfaction, expressing his desire in no particular to have yt Stellar fish engraven and printed.…

— Henry Oldenburg

There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct…

— Alexander Hamilton

Violence is a common part of far too many women's lives.

— Roxane Gay

Christ had no interest in gathering vast crowds of professed adherents who would melt away as soon as they found out what…

— J. I. Packer

Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have…

— Angela Carter

The American sense of the importance, the fundamental importance of the black-white dichotomy, comes out of societies founded in the era of…

— Nell Irvin Painter

I had been practicing for the Depression a long time. I wasn't involved with loss. I didn't have money to lose, but…

— John Steinbeck

I don't choose to be a common man. I want to be better tomorrow than today. And through a commitment to work…

— Jay Robinson

[ My time and our common culture] it's what I'm photographing, and I'm very involved with that.

— Sam Abell

Both rich and poor nations have a common stake in policies that put the globe on a sustainable development path. The conflict…

— Robert Kuttner

We try to coordinate regularly with Russia, as well as with others - except for the United States - on what is…

— Mohammad Javad Zarif

For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy…

— Vera Nazarian

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial…

— William Wordsworth

Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into…

— Gary Ross

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence.

— Isaac Asimov

I believe we can have common sense gun safety measures consistent with the Second Amendment, and, in fact, what I have proposed…

— Hillary Clinton

A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.

— Meridel Le Sueur

Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.

— Maureen Howard

There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To…

— Charles Dickens

Powerful people come from all walks of life and leave their mark upon the world in a variety of ways. But one…

— Chris Kilham

Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was…

— Jane Austen

What Smith and Marx have in common is that they were both philosophers of great vision and perceptiveness, deep humanity, and a…

— Allen W. Wood

[I shall not] discuss scientific method, but rather the methods of scientists. We proceed by common sense and ingenuity. There are no…

— Joel Henry Hildebrand

Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.

— Joel Miller

It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.

— Adam Weishaupt

A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.

— Albert Camus

The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his…

— Winston Churchill

A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Christian…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am…

— Nicole Polizzi

Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and…

— Sallust

What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there…

— Hafez

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.

— Arthur Helps

I've twice run against women opponents, and it's a very different kind of approach. For those of us who have some chivalry…

— Mike Huckabee

The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer