Quotes with common-sense

Quotes 901 till 920 of 1001.

  • Bill Owens We must renew our efforts to keep our communities safe, from the dangers of terrorists from foreign lands and from common criminals here at home. Let no criminal believe that tough fiscal times will yield an open cell door and a ticket to freedom.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Ban Kimoon We must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today – climate change – into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future.
    Big Idea 2014: The Year for Climate Action (2013)
    Ban Kimoon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Graham Greene We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed - that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Arnold Bennett We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Anna Lindh We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Oscar Wilde We really have everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
    The Canterville Ghost
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Alfred de Vigny We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Cass Sunstein We shouldn't limit the idea of 'policy recommendations' to regulators. On the Internet, all of us are, in a sense, policymakers.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung We think of our efficient teachers with a sense of recognition, but those who touched our humanity we remember with gratitude. Learning is the essential mineral, but warmth is the life-element for the child's soul, no less than for the growing plant.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Lionel Trilling We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Ben Foster We've turned film into such an industry that we pursue naturalism just by shaking the camera and cutting the film to ribbons to provoke a bogus sense of documentary. But we haven't done the homework. To push the depth that the Actor's Studio did or the Russian theatres did with their actors is to rehearse, to spend time, to dig, to excavate.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein Web publishing can create common spaces; it all depends on how we, the readers and sometimes the producers, react to technological change. If we sort ourselves into narrow groups, common spaces will be in big trouble. But there's no reason not to have common spaces on the Internet. There are lots of them out there.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Terence What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • James Russell Lowell What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Alice James What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Barbara de Angelis What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Arthur Hertzberg What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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