Quotes of: Common-sense Keyword

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

William Temple

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

Don DeLillo

I have a general sense of excitement about the future, and I don't know what that looks like yet. But it will be whatever I make it.

Amanda Lindhout

In my books and in romance as a genre, there is a positive, uplifting feeling that leaves the reader with a sense of encouragement and hope for a brighter future - or a brighter present.

Debbie Macomber

What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won't be funny.

Steven Wright

On stage you can get away with a lot more in the sense of emotion and truthfulness. But the camera is the eye of God. It sees everything.

Cindy Busby

I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.

Johann Lamont

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Don Herold

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Alexis Carrel

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

Anais Nin

This - the leadership of the mayor is crucial, because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision, the energy, and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery.

Marc Morial

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Amos Bronson Alcott

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

Charles Lindbergh

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

Dwayne Johnson

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

Georg Simmel

The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

Joshua Ferris

My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing.

John Updike

A growing body of evidence suggests that humans do have a rudimentary moral sense from the very start of life.

Paul Bloom

The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

Federica Montseny

Nothing jazzes me up like football. I've acquired more passion of the years, not less. Not to love it wouldn't make sense.

John Madden

Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.

Fran Drescher