Quotes with common-sense

Quotes 101 till 120 of 1001.

  • Percy Bysshe Shelley All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Plutarch All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Barbara Walters All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Cesare Pavese All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Buddy Wakefield All these kids you can't seem to make any sense of would stop holding you so far off the edge of your seats if you'd start holding yourselves to the promises you make. We know you're not perfect because we're not. And I know I ain't perfect. But I believe I was meant to be.
    Poetry Older People
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Bob Dylan All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • W. H. Auden All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work ''comes'' to him.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Basil Bunting All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
    On Poetry
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • Ann Beattie Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Charlie McCarthy Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
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  • Jimmy Carter America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • Bill Flores America's history is exemplified in the efforts of the men and women who died for our country. The one thing that they all have in common is their selfless love for our nation and their courage to stand up to protect and defend it. They raised their gaze in the face of conflict, believed in what America could be, and pushed forward.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • John Updike Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • W. H. Auden Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Alan Greenspan An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bonnie Friedman An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
    Bonnie Friedman
    American author
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski And I think to be in NATO for the countries of our region, it means more guarantees for us, it means more responsibility for our common security, but it means fulfillment of all standards of civilized world, like protection of human rights and democratic mechanisms.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Bob Knight And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Bruce Greenwood Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.
    Bruce Greenwood
    Canadian actor and producer (1956 - )
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