Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tyler Perry

You know, people don't want their intelligence insulted. They don't want to be preached to. They don't want to be degraded. All they want to do is sit, laugh, have a good time, love one another, forget about what's going on in the world, and find something out so they can be useful in this life. Do this and you have common sense.

William Kingdon Clifford

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

William Hazlitt

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

W. Somerset Maugham

A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.

Luther Burbank

As a scientist I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired. As for their prophets, there are as many today as ever before, only now science refuses to let them overstep the bounds of common sense.

Kenneth R. Miller

Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense.

Kingsley Amis

Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.

Kenny Guinn

We must rely less on spreadsheets and funding formulas and more on common sense.

Margaret Deland

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

Kenneth Trump

The only thing that is more dangerous than a gang member with a weapon is a parent or an educator in denial. There's no excuse for parental ignorance. Turning their head and looking the other way can lead the kids into gangs in the first place.

Darry Sragow

Had he been able to portray the Democrats as a party that's preventing him from solving the problems of California, I think we could have painted ourselves into a very dangerous corner.

Jesse Ventura

Going on projections, I think, is a very dangerous thing to do, because if the economy were to switch or change, those projections become meaningless, ... Face The Nation.

Barry Trotz

He's just got to work his way back in and he's a dangerous player for us. He'll have a big impact as the series goes on.

Cindy Hockenberry

I think it's dangerous any time you spend money before it's in your hand. You never know what's going to happen.

Paul Offit

What makes you vulnerable is the virulence, the dangerousness, of the virus, and the 1918 virus was one dangerous virus, ... Avian flu, too - when it infects, it kills. That's why people are scared, and reasonably so.

Ruth Vostal

We talked about the dangerous points of the game. After someone scores, it's definitely a dangerous time.

Troy Smith

I think we can keep improving on some things offensively. We can grow into a real dangerous offense.

Tim Wise

I think we can be a dangerous team.

Harry Pachon

He voted his conscience, even when people made fun of him,

John Milton

Her virtue and the conscience of her worth,/ That would be wooed, and not unsought be won.

Ernie Accorsi

He shaped nearly every rule and philosophy we have in our league today. Most of all, he was the moral conscience of the National Football League. He now joins the pantheon of incredible men who made this league what it has become.

Debbie Stabenow

I think what we see is a conscience vote on all sides and people of good will making their own decisions,

John Walsh

I think that we must look at the situation and say: 'Are we respecting a person's conscience?'

Robert Parry

He felt very strongly that society should have a social conscience.

Larry Gibson

If you had any conscience at all, this wouldn't happen. We would find other sources of energy instead of trying to destroy our back yard.

Confucius

If you look into your own heart, you find nothing wrong there, what is there to fear?

Billy Wagner

I just didn't feel like I was ready yet. I didn't feel like I could, in good conscience, go out and try to push myself to that next level in early March. It's something that could turn out and I could hurt myself, and that's something I want to stay away from, because I want to go out there and do what's right for me and my future.