Quotes of: Common-sense Keyword

Saying "thank you" signifies sense of gratitude, but it also implies your incapability.

Amit Kalantri

A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.

Anne Rice

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

Aeschylus

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

Albert Schweitzer

Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.

Armstrong Williams

Children cannot develop a sense of inner discipline if all of the control comes from the outside.

Babara Coloroso

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

Ben Nicholson

What Republicans have done in my view is that they are systematically dismantling a sense of community in America.

Tom Vilsack

Life changed you, and the people you thought you could not stand suddenly made sense to you.

Una McCormack

Aerow creates a drawn out sense of pressure with the use of rather simplistic. Quite frankly, [the music] is fantastic.

Life

155Sometimes I definitely feel a sense of accomplishment but it’s never after accomplishing something.

Love

Just because it makes no sense doesn't mean it's not good advice.

Wisdom

One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all.

Ursus Wehrli

I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

Vidal Sassoon

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

William Makepeace Thackeray

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.

Chang-Rae Lee

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

Margaret J. Wheatley

1883. ...The teaching of the Church has elaborated the principle of subsidiarity, according to which "a community of a higher order should not interfere in the internal life of a community of a lower order, depriving the latter of its functions, but ...

Catechism of the Catholic Church

Sometimes, for revenge to be as sweet and painful as it is intended, some time has to pass. Time enough that people have forgotten about past hurts and humiliations. Time enough to make the poison of bitterness consume a soul. It was to be that time....

Captive Heart

The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in a society that openly admits to a feverish interest in the comparative status-conveying qualities of sneakers. Manners are available to all, for free.

Common Courtesy: In Which Miss Manners Solves the Problem That Baffled Mr. Jefferson

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, car...

The Communist Manifesto