Common Quotes - Page 44

We've gotten to the point now where Republicans and Democrats have nothing in common besides being members of the 'caustic caucus,' and we can't get anything done.

Current organisms have a higher probability of sharing a single code if the common ancestry hypothesis is true than they'd have if the hypothesis of separate ancestry were true. That is, the simpler hypothesis has the higher likelihood in the technical sense of "likelihood" used in statistics.

I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it's common sense.

The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture of inconsistency and contradiction; to call which the word of God, is the highest pitch of extravagance: it is to attribute to the deity that which any person of common sense would blush to confess himself the author of.

Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either imagination or intuition. It has become a very strange and perhaps frightening subject from the ordinary point of view, but anyone who penetrates into it will find a veritable fairyland, a fairyland which is strange, but makes sense, if not common sense.

Everything should be done with moderation and using common sense.

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?

You gotta do common things, uncommonly well.

I do not choose to be a common man.

Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.

There is, indeed a more mitigated scepticism or academical philosophy, which may be both durable and useful, and which may, in part, be the result of this Pyrrhonism, or excessive scepticism, when its undistinguished doubts are corrected by common sense and reflection.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

Nothing brings you together like a common enemy.

People feel that the EU is heading in a direction that they never signed up to. They resent the interference in our national life by what they see as unnecessary rules and regulation. And they wonder what the point of it all is. Put simply, many ask 'why can't we just have what we voted to join - a common market?'

We all have the potential to show others love and affection, but as we progress in our materialistic world, these values tend to remain dormant. We can develop them on the basis of common sense, common experience and scientific findings. The response to the recent tragedy in the Philippines is an example of how such values are awakened; people helped simply because others are suffering and in need of support.

Always embrace the common humanity that lies at the heart of us all.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.

Jesus Christ: A common exclamation indicating surprise, disgust, anger or bewilderment.

The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

We both (Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett) insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think.