Quotes of: Common-interests Keyword

Taste is the common sense of genius.

Victor Hugo

Have common sense and stick to the point.

W. Somerset Maugham

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

James Reston

…the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?

The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evel...

David Chipperfield

Love is warmth. It’s the inside jokes. It’s the reassuring touch. It’s the late night talks. It’s the finding of common interests. It’s the sharing of ice cream. It’s the crying shoulder. It’s the acceptance of what’s ugly. It’s the...

Snippets of Imagery

Do you always blindly follow orders from your master? You are no more than a common mutt,’ Varg growled. Tain laughed. ‘He is not my master, jotun. I serve no god, so I certainly serve no man, not even The Serpent himself. I am merely interested ...

The White Wolf

A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of considerable self-assurance. Since he occurs only rarely, he must seem eccentric (in at least that respect) to the rest of us. A person eccentric in one re...

Isaac Asimov

Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.... To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension...

H.P. Lovecraft

Both noble and common blood are the same color.

German

There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

The Common Reader

Knowledge counts but common sense matters.

Dangerous Minds

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

Peter Latham

Formation of Network of people for common purpose leads to Society with common objectives.

Santosh Kalwar

I'll trade glib for common sense any day.

Steve Wynn

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Leonardo da Vinci

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

William Beveridge

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

Helen Gurley Brown

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.

Joan Crawford

The common moral praxis of Jews and Christians is most definitely theologically informed by the doctrine we share in common: The human person, male and female, is created in the image of God.

David Novak

I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.

Myrna Loy