Common Quotes - Page 18

Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is all too often used as a common denominator for diverse efforts to perpetuate one's own power in a democratic system, convert opinions into dogma, and kill off all opposition, even silent.

It makes sense that there is no sense without God.

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you don't clutter yourself.

If you were against slavery in 1840 and a white person, you would have been against the law, the Bible, your church, your pastor, your parents, common sense, tradition, everything. You would have been against everything.

Valor is common but great souls are rare.

We cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself.

There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

Buffett was a billionaire who drove his own car, did his own taxes, and still lived in a home he had bought in 1958 for $31,500. He seemed to answer to a deeply rooted, distinctly American mythology, in which decency and common sense triumphed over cosmopolitan guile, and in which an idealized past held firm against a rootless and too hurriedly changing present.

Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

Today we stand together all around the world, joined in a common purpose - to remake the planet into a haven of joy and understanding and goodness.

God does uncommon things through common people in common places.

Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth... and what you tell it.

I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible.

After a lifetime of picking stocks, I have to admit that Bogle's arguments in favor of the index fund have me thinking of joining him rather than trying to beat him. Bogle's wisdom and common sense are indispensable... for anyone trying to figure out how to invest in this crazy stock market.

I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ.

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

Introducing someone as a "Negro poet with a University degree" or again, quite simply, the expression, "a great black poet." These ready-made phrases, which seem in a common-sense way to fill a need-or have a hidden subtlety, a permanent rub.

Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.

A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.

We offer peace and neighborliness to all the neighboring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Hebrew nation for the common good of all.