Quotes tagged ‘Common Sense’

“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, amazon.com

“Well, let me define this. I’m against gay marriage, but I’m for gay unions. But I don’t want any sexuality defined. If you have a union and designate someone, if you go to the hospital, your overseer, that’s fine with me. Gay marriage I don’t think is necessary because, under the law, if you legaliz…”

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“I do believe there are common-sense solutions on both sides of the aisle if people would come together and remove their self interest and their ideology and recognize that they’ve been elected to represent all of America, not their individual constituency. It’s just a shame that we’re in a situation…”

— Howard Schultz, ca.sports.yahoo.com

“I always get to where I'm going by walking away from where I've been.”

— Tom McCarthy, Alex Ross Perry, Allison Schroeder, Mark Steven Johnson, Greg Brooker, Winnie the Pooh, Jim Cummings, imdb.com

“You don’t offer a deal unless you want something in return.”

— Keto Shimizu, Ubah Mohamed, Mick Rory / Heat Wave, Dominic Purcell, imdb.com

“It's your responsibility. You're smart. You should be able to use your common sense. When somebody says something, you should figure out what they really mean. And when things don't go exactly how you expected them, navigate that.”

— Thomas L. Moran, Dr. Aaron Glassman, Richard Schiff, imdb.com

“You have your mother’s common sense but your father’s devilment. I see them fighting. Let your mother win.”

— Steven Knight, Polly Gray, Helen McCrory, imdb.com

“Ought to be polite to a man with a gun. Only common sense.”

— Frank Darabont, Rick Grimes, Andrew Lincoln, imdb.com

“Jack: I want you on this, Lemon. Those jokes you wrote for my Mitt Romney fundraiser, they were top-notch. Liz: Those weren’t jokes! That was an appeal for a return to common sense and decency. Jack: Well, they got big laughs.”

— Dave Finkel, Brett Baer, Jack Burditt, Jack Donaghy, Alec Baldwin, imdb.com

“You know that tingly little feeling you get when you like someone? That's your common sense leaving your body.”

— Unknown, tcat.tc

“There are many qualities which we need in order to gain success, but the three above all—for the lack of which no brilliancy and no genius can atone—are Courage, Honesty and Common Sense.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, theodorerooseveltcenter.org

“A job with the New York Yankees! This has been the dream of my life ever since I was a child, and it's all happening because I'm completely ignoring every urge towards common sense and good judgment I've ever had. This is no longer just some crazy notion. Jerry, this is my religion.”

— Andy Cowan, Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com

“Mathematics is 90% common sense, the other half is intelligence.”

— abbabil, reddit.com

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

— Gertrude Stein, en.wikiquote.org

“...common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, amazon.com

“I do not know everything; still many things I understand.”

— Madeleine L'Engle, amazon.com

“Don't simply believe everything you're told. Insight gets lost to us when we stop trusting our common sense.”

— Dr. Gia Sison, twitter.com

“I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.”

— Anne Brontë, amazon.com