Common Quotes - Page 26

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.

Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.

One of the most common ways of not acknowledging our faults is to blame others.

I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

I find a lot of people say, “Oh organic and local’s expensive and I just don’t have time.” And I’m like, well how much TV do you watch? Where are your priorities right now? I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it’s common sense.

The contributions that one makes in typography, design, and art in general cannot be, and must not be measured on how much money is involved. That would lead to total chaos. The word itself (contribution) is to give to a common purpose.

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

The inner cities, education is almost worthless, it's horrible. We're going to have Common Core ended.

Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense

No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon.

Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. Those who lack humour are without judgment and should be trusted with nothing.

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Certainly, because the computer and computer language was still not as common as it is today. That's one of the reasons I believe Tron wasn't as popular back then as it is today.

Along with the evidence of common sense, researchers have proven scientifically that humans are all one people. We're a lot like dogs in that regard. If a Great Dane interacts (can we say interact?) with a Chihuahua, you get a dog.

Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.

The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.

What the founders of modern science ... had to do, was not criticize and to combat certain faulty theories, and to correct or to replace them by better ones. They had to do something quite different. They had to destroy one world and replace it by another. They had to reshape the framework of our intellect itself, to restate and to reform its concepts, to evolve a new approach to Being, a new concept of knowledge, and a new concept of science - and even to replace a pretty natural approach, that of common sense, by another which is not natural at all.

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

The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.

This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.

The gospel proceeds on the basis of universal depravity; the gospel assimilates all varieties of human nature into one common experience of guilt and need and helplessness; and this is just what you do not like about it.