All Quotes

Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.
‐‐ Laurence J. Peter

Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf.
‐‐ John McCarthy

Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.
‐‐ H. G. Bissinger

Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
‐‐ Natalie Portman

Committing yourself to some kind of job that isn't committed to God is going to bring so much trouble into your life. It's not good and not something I would suggest that someone seek.
‐‐ Angus T. Jones

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.
‐‐ Jim Rogers

Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It's institutional building. It can survive any environment, in theory.
‐‐ Nicolas Berggruen

Commodity prices are at a record high. In 1933, the world's population was just over 2 billion people. Today, there are 7 billion mouths to feed - many of them depending on American agriculture.
‐‐ Debbie Stabenow

Common Core is a big win for education.
‐‐ Bill Gates

Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their 'critical thinking.'
‐‐ David Harsanyi

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.
‐‐ Rene Daumal

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.
‐‐ Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Common is one of the nicest people I've ever met, and to describe him as a vile rapper because he has an opinion... just says a lot about the state of America. You are allowed to have an opinion in the United States - he's never harmed anybody, he just has an opinion about a president that wasn't good for our country.
‐‐ Jill Scott

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point.
‐‐ Karl Lehmann

Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men... mild, soft, nurturing relationships.
‐‐ Samantha Harvey

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
‐‐ Clive James

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.
‐‐ Ric Keller

Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.
‐‐ Joan Blades

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
‐‐ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
‐‐ George Jean Nathan

Common sense is calculation applied to life.
‐‐ Henri Frederic Amiel

Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
‐‐ E. W. Howe

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense is genius in homespun.
‐‐ Alfred North Whitehead

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.
‐‐ Peter Latham

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
‐‐ Josh Billings

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
‐‐ Giambattista Vico

Common sense is not so common.
‐‐ Voltaire

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
‐‐ Leonardo da Vinci

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

Common sense is the genius of humanity.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
‐‐ Josh Billings

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
‐‐ Henri Frederic Amiel

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
‐‐ Rene Descartes

Common sense is very uncommon.
‐‐ Horace Greeley

Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not.
‐‐ Charles D. Broad

Common sense says that if something possessed the ability to create itself from nothing, then that something wasn't nothing, it was something - a very intelligent creative power of some sort.
‐‐ Ray Comfort

Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor.
‐‐ Carl Levin

Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump.
‐‐ Bob Ney

Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have seen the result, and I know many have the skill to apply it.
‐‐ Lawrence Hargrave

Common sense suggests that if no one ever judged other people, there would be no real human community.
‐‐ Lewis B. Smedes

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.
‐‐ Sarah Palin

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
‐‐ Charles Baudelaire

Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.
‐‐ Fred Upton

Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.
‐‐ Bob Beauprez

Common sense to one person might be something different to another.
‐‐ Taya Kyle