Common Quotes - Page 14

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

My entire life has been devoted to breaking down barriers, to finding common ground.

Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination.

The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.

Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.

Common sense ain't common.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

The Bible is common-sense inspired.

By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.

You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.

During those rare moments of creativeness, when a person has something in common with the making of the universe, he feels a sense of transcendence. What could be a greater reward?

As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common.

The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.

Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts until some semblance of common sense and common purpose returns to the public mind.

The university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking.

For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.

The roots of all commonwealth are planted in the understanding that we are all the same human beings.

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths, or to reject absurdities, and palpable contradictions.

Good Luck is rather particular who she rides with, and mostly prefers those who have got common sense and a good heart; at least that is my experience.