Quotes of: Common-sense Keyword

The church and the scientific community are fighting at times a common enemy: the truth religion cannot deny and the positivist materialist scientist is unable to explain.

A Time of Change

They both have in common their conviction that they are still learning, still growing, when in fact they have long ago lost that ability.

Reached

All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.

The Road

We must love all of creation, not only what is common. A god may have the head of an elephant, after all.

A Thousand Perfect Things

I put in no claims either for happiness, for gratification, or even for the common comforts of life: yet, surely, I had a right to exist!

The Victim of Prejudice

We must seek together to address the good aspirations of people everywhere, for we are bound together through great commonality.

Voice of Reason

Our common humanity, viewed realistically, can be as much a source of despair as hope.

War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage

Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

The Younger Brother; Or, the Amorous Jilt

I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it's something I'm doing.

Len Goodman

I think I'm the best candidate not just to beat President Obama, but to do what is necessary to get this country going, a conviction conservative who can rally the American public around a common set of values.

Rick Santorum

A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.

Tom Rachman

It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

There is a coarse and ugly temperament and tenor observable in the common unconscious person.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

The medical system serves a very important purpose for many, but our most common lifestyle diseases are better served with use of the Self Care System.

Nina Leavins

Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.

Nick Rahall

This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.

Omar Sharif

Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.

P. C. Cast

Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain.

Paul Gillmor

Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.

Primo Levi

That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.

Ricky Jay

It is ashamed that history isolates things that are common to a large populace, but families don’t disperse generational history to prevent their descendants from falling in the same traps as they had.

Stephen and Tiffany Domena