Quotes of: Common-things Keyword

Common sense is not so common.

A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

What is common sense to one, is not always so common to another.

Stephan Labossiere

You don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't any.

Parenting Pitfalls: Common Parenting Mistakes and Common Sense Solutions

You don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't have any.

Parenting Pitfalls: Common Parenting Mistakes and Common Sense Solutions

I want to have faith in strangers. I want to have faith in what we're all going to do next. But I'm worried. I see things shifting from United We Stand to God Bless America. I don't believe in God Bless America. I don't believe a higher power is stan...

Love Is the Higher Law

It's not a common thing for a Southern white family to go out and seek their black cousins.

Edward Ball

The thing that all sports have in common is that they have no fantasy elements, which is a little weird.

Jesse Schell

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

Andrew O'Hagan

In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

Olympia Snowe

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.

Common Sense

From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

Olivia Wilde

He looked at me with the tired, ignorant, slightly stupid expression that is so common in people who aren't used to seeing the broader picture in small things.

The Room

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

Ray Kinsella: The only thing we had in common was that she was from Iowa, and I had once heard of Iowa.

Field of Dreams

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

Tommy Lee Jones

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.

Alfred Marshall

You don't gain more authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't have much authority.

Parenting Pitfalls: Common Parenting Mistakes and Common Sense Solutions

I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.

Wayne Brady

A common misconception about how things such as space shuttles come to be is that engineers simply apply the theories and equations of science. But this cannot be done until the new thing-to-be is conceived in the engineer's mind's eye. Rather than f...

Henry Petroski

There is no monopoly of common sense On either side of the political fence We share the same biology Regardless of ideology Believe me when I say to you I hope the Russians love their children too [...] There's no such thing as a winnable war It's a ...

The Dream of the Blue Turtles

The most important thing to remember about confronting an irrational person is that they are usually attributing an inaccurate meaning to a situation causing them to react irrationally.

How to Deal with Irrational People: What to do When Common Sense Fails and "Crazy" Behavior Prevails