Common Quotes - Page 30

The editors are committed to nothing save this: to keep common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably as possible, to give civilized entertainment.

I don't believe in lowest common denominators. Our focus has been on delivering value. We're rarely going to be the cheapest theater in a market. We strive to be the best.

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.

Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.

Now I know the difference between a rousing reception and a pat on the back. Now I know the difference between a gold in Commonwealth Games and a bronze in Olympics.

The making of thoughts is the most common instance of human participation in the creative act.

The most common user action on a Web site is to flee.

I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.

So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure.

Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.

They had nothing in common but the English language.

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat.

People are crying out for a Conservative Party that is decent, reasonable, common sense and in it for the long term of this country.

Common sense dictates the term hot fudge sundae has a totally different meaning in prison.

The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.

The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different

We need to reduce military budgets; raise living standards; engender respect for learning; support science, scholarship, invention, and industry; promote free inquiry; reduce domestic coercion; involve the workers more in managerial decisions; and promote genuine respect and understanding derived from an acknowledgement of our common humanity and our common jeopardy.

The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.

I abhor, too, the roaming lover, nor do I drink from every well; I loathe all things in common

However common irreverence and profanity become, they are nonetheless wrong