Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Calvin

I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.

Fred Thompson

Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks.

Ellen Page

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.

Ellen Page

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

John Masefield

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

David Deutsch

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.

Doris Lessing

I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.

Clive James

A sense of humour is common sense dancing.

Douglas Hofstadter

There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.

Ali Khan

What we've seen is what we would expect. Infectious disease outbreaks are not common following hurricanes.

John Prescott

have a great deal in common and a lot to discuss.

Jed S. Rakoff

I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

Rob Bell

That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things...

Vladimir Putin

We had a very good situation in 2005. The common budget had a volume of 80 billion dollars per year. Thousands of jobs were created in Germany by Russian investments. At the same time, a large number of German companies invested in Russia. There were countless cultural and social contacts.

If you get invited to your first orgy, don't just show up nude. That's a common mistake. You have to let nudity "happen.

John Mitchell

If there was a common theme to his stories, it was misuse of power. He knew who his readers were. He knew that if something outraged him, they would be outraged, too.

Mike McGavick

I plan to take common sense and stability back to Washington.

Jim Johnson

By joining with numerous other industry players, we hope to speed ratification of the standard as well as jointly develop a common guideline to deliver interoperable solutions in the interim.

Graham Arnold

Guus is a great believer in a youth policy and he is determined to give them their chance at international level.

Lara Flynn

I do not promote breast jobs. But I am a believer in enhancing.

Dante Hall

I am a firm believer in resting the body.

Tom Izzo

I'm not a big believer that the NCAA goes totally on strength of schedule and things like that, so I think you still have to have wins.

Julia Glass

I'm not a believer that you have to write every day. If I felt industrious, I'd spend ten hours a week writing. The writing is going on all the time in my head; the trick is to capture it. Showers are great. Traffic jams are great.

John LaMattina

I'm a big believer in size, ... When you're a smaller company, as we were 27 years ago when I started, you don't necessarily have the resources to invest in things outside your immediate expertise. But as we've gotten bigger and become more resource-rich we've been able to expand.

John Kasich

Im a believer in bipartisanship.

Jim Leyland

I've always been a big believer that it's just as important to learn to handle success as it is failure.

Dan Campbell

I've always been a big believer in Sean and his style and what he was doing. He's one of the reasons I came down here because I knew what type of guy he was.