Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.

Albert Einstein

Common sense consists of those layers of prejudice laid down before the age of 18.

Alexander Pope

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

E. O. Wilson

Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of science. Common sense tells us that massive satellites cannot hang suspended 36,000 kilometers above the one point on the earth's surface, but they do...

Dorothy Day

Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.

Dalai Lama

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.

Dalai Lama

There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings.

Dalai Lama

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

Andrew Weil

The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.

Michael Ignatieff

A society is not a market. It is a political community.

Pius Ncube

President Mugabe is deliberately starving his people. They are doing this for political motivation,

Evo Morales

This is a political and social triumph as well as a union triumph and shows that our struggle has not been in vain.

Howell Raines

All Alabamians benefited from the vigorous political reporting in which the Post-Herald specialized for many years,

Tom Umberg

a little more outreach time with the political community.

Barbara Mertz

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

Calvin Coolidge

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Carla Bley

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

Alain Badiou

It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.

Ricky Ford

Practicing politics is like professional football. You have to be smart enough to understand the rules and stupid enough to think what you are doing is important.

Hillary Clinton

I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.

Barbara Mertz

Money was the manure of politics ...

Benjamin Disraeli

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

Calvin Coolidge

If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

Al Gore

Take it from me, every vote counts.

Bob Dylan

Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.

Martin L. Gross

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Denise Layne

Don't play politics with this issue. You've got to show the moxie, the backbone.