Famous Quotes & Sayings

Recep Erdogan

We passed the most important phase on the way to reaching our 40-year goal and the founding principles of our republic, ... The document is satisfactory. I am happy to say that common sense prevailed.

Charlie Pierce

We owe each other a debt and we owe each other an obligation, and because of these fundamental American imperatives, there are things that we own in common with each other, and that we are obliged to protect for our posterity. The water. The trees. The wild places in the land. We lose sight of these truths sometimes.

With 25 members, the EU will have its hands tied in representing our common interests in the world (by retaining the veto).

Richard Harris

Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn't sit half way through it. The Pulitzer is a common prize that means very little.

Robert Fortune

Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows.

David Berg

Heaven is a pretty practical, common sense, down-to-earth place!

Experience join'd with common sense, to mortals is a providence

Fairly common sense, straightforward stuff. Who can disagree with that?

False positives are actually very common. They're particularly common for programs that aren't widely distributed, like some game.

Peter Baynham

It's a fairly common phenomenon of London life - people having fully developed critiques of books they haven't read and films they haven't seen. I'd probably include myself in that.

Peter Beard

I've never gotten a release from any person. I'm not a businessman; I'm on the side of common sense. Releases ruin the atmosphere of photography.

The good thing about this is it shows that planets this size might be quite common in habitable zones.

Andrzej Wajda

In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries.

We seem to have a whole lot in common as women, and as mothers, so that's pretty interesting.

We're talking with the NRA to see if there's any common ground we can reach. But it's going to be a far reach.

Abigail Washburn

I do see music as complete refuge. It's a universal home, complete common ground between everyone; it comes from a place that has no nation and no boundaries around it.

The GOP leaders are upset with me, but the Republicans around the district are thanking me for stepping up to the plate and giving them a choice in this election of a real common sense conservative Reagan Republican.

Jacque Fresco

What is needed is the intelligent management of Earth's resources. If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems, we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people.

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.

The problem is that the stock market tends to predict downturns or upturns too early. The common joke is that the stock market predicted 11 out of the last 9 recessions.

Donald Wuerl

The great American tradition is one of pluralism, not exclusive secularism. The strength of our country is reflected in the contributions that we all make to the common good.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

Barbara Park

I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.

Gerhard Schroder

A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.

Chris Rock

When I started out in comedy, it was common knowledge that it took about 10 years to get good. And that was okay because it took you about 9 years to get on television.

I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.

It's not a common thing for a Southern white family to go out and seek their black cousins.

Joschka Fischer

There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system.

I'm an artist and an engineer, which is, increasingly, a more common kind of hybrid. But I still fall into this weird crack where people don't seem to understand me.

Thomas Reid

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.

Stephen Parker

We're looking at a lot of runoff. People should use their common sense.

E. W. Howe

Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

E. W. Howe

What is common sense? That which attracts the least opposition that which brings most agreeable and worthy results.