Quotes of: Common-man Keyword

I despise common sense. I’ve seen the world from every possible angle. This cruel, ridiculous, beautiful world.

Life

Not all black people are loud, ghetto, and ignorant, Some of them act like they got some common sense.

Vj Nadar

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

Christopher Lasch

The healing power of charity, bestowed by our Father and made possible by the Atonement of Jesus Christ, can make it virtually impossible for us even to feel emotions common to the natural man.

If Life Were Easy, It Wouldn't Be Hard: And Other Reassuring Truths

The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have c...

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

All Jane Austen novels have a common storyline: an attractive and virtuous young woman surmounts difficulties to achieve marriage to the man of her choice. This is the age-long convention of the romantic novel, but with Jane Austen, what we have is M...

Talking About Detective Fiction

The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men how to capture a woman are far less common, perhaps because few men are willing to admit to such a difficulty. For both sexes, I recommend a good nov...

Roger Ebert

The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, the...

Ang Lee

Whereas once medieval Europe had adhered to a common Catholic religion, a common Latin language, and common well-spiced cuisine (at least, for the elite), the balkanization of the Christian world along national lines now meant that nations could no l...

Michael Krondl

Men who give up the common goal of all things that exist, thereby cease to exist themselves. Some may perhaps think it strange that we say that wicked men, who form the majority of men, do not exist; but that is how it is. I am not trying to deny the...

The Consolation of Philosophy

First do no harm. -Hippocrates Second, do some good. -Anne M. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D.

The Common Sense Guide to Dementia for Clinicians and Caregivers

Focus on giants - you stumble. Focus on God - Giants tumble.

Cast of Characters: Common People in the Hands of an Uncommon God

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....

The Common Good

You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold.

Cure for the Common Life: Living in Your Sweet Spot

There is no UFO and also there is no alien, at least not in common mind nor reference.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

Sorry, he said penitently. It’s a book. I have no common sense around them.

The Bell at Sealey Head

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

F. L. Lucas

Far be it from me to ever let my common sense get in the way of my stupidity. I say we press on.

Infinity

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.

Recollections on the French Revolution

Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa Fortuna." ["Generally common sense is rare in that (higher) rank."]

Satires, Book I

That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more: Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.

In Memoriam