Quotes of: General-sense Keyword

Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.

Charles Grodin

Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices.

Fred Upton

I consider myself a reasonable man. As such, I tend to expect others to behave with a modicum of reason and common sense. Especially those with power.

Peter Horton

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley

Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.

William Hague

In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.

Amit Kalantri

People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

Benjamin Carson

When women vote, Progressives can win. When women organize and bring some common sense to the conversation, it becomes more authentic.

Christine Pelosi

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

Joyce Meyer

The maker of laws must be severe; who executes them must be generous.

Chinese

One bad general is better than two good ones.

French

There is nothing better than a rich wife and a generous mother-in-law.

Russian

I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in a typically scientific way. I wouldn't be surprised if poetry--poetry in the broadest sense, ...

Bicycle Diaries

I'll be sure not to let anyone but you carry me in her arms." He turns and leaves the kitchen before I can figure out what to make of his comment. A sense of humor is one more thing I don't think angels should have. The fact that his sense of humor i...

Angelfall

TO ALL MANKIND Speak kind words to mankind and the unkind will attack you. Speak common sense using any of your senses, and you will be attacked by the senseless. Speak truth, and you will be attacked by the untruthful. Speak about absolutely nothing...

Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

If I already intuitively "get" what you're trying to tell me, why should I obsess about remembering it? The danger, of course, is that what sounds like common sense often isn't.... It's your job, as a communicator, to expose the parts of your message...

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

... an impression of inescapable noise or acute disorder, a rush of adrenalin, sensations of alarm, a sense of unbalance or chaos, residual feeling of nausea and anxiety. These are the forms of bodily distress that occur when one's ingrained, taken-f...

Barbara Herrnstein Smith

It makes no sense to try to forge the iron whilst it is still cold.

Arabian

There’s no path to liberation that doesn’t pass through the shadow.

Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment

Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.

The General's Daughter

Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.

Frank Pittman