Common Quotes - Page 46

Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.

I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

Most Christians are satisfied living as common Christians, without an insatiable hunger for the deeper things of God.

Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.

The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune.

By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

I was making commercials. That's how I learned the craft. That was the marketing part of it: directing commercial for TV. It wasn't the most common thing to become a filmmaker in Greece. I started by saying I was interested in marketing and have a proper job in advertising and commercials. Basically, I studied film to learn how to do marketing, and commercials. As I studied film I learned I'd be interested in making films instead of commercials.

The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State. Rathe, it studiously defines the manner, the specific ways, in which there shall be no concert or union or dependency one on the other. That is the common sense of the matter. Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other.

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.

I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that this is all our lives - this is the one fact that applies to us all, that makes us what we are, our common mortality, our common humanity. One day someone is going to come and take us away: you don't need to have been a spy, I thought, to feel like this.

We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.

... the best way to own common stocks is through an index fund.

I can't promise results, but I can promise a common destiny.

A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law.

I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

It's odd about tattoos. I've talked to several hundred men convicted of homicide-multiple homicide, in most cases. The only common denominate- I could find among them was tattoos. A good eighty percent of them were heavily tattooed.

Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.

If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.

The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.

Everybody knows it. Wizards are supposed to have beards. It's common knowledge.

Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt