“I would rather be erring on the side of common-sense pragmatism and doing everything possible so that I felt that no stone was left unturned in terms of trying to protect school children.” TryingChildrenSchoolLeftFeltSidesTermCommonProtectStonesCommon SensePragmatismErring Author:John B. Larson
“If I could leave this body with one wish, it would be that we never give up that search for common ground, .. The politics of common ground will not be found on the far right, or on the far left. That is not where most Americans live. We will only find it on the firm middle ground, based on common sense and shared values.” IfsGivingBodyWould BeValuesFoundLeftWishCommonMiddleGiving UpCommon SenseFirmIf I CouldNever Giving UpCommon GroundMiddle GroundShared Values Author:Tom Daschle
“We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand came from a star that blew up 8 billion years ago. The iron in your left hand came from another star. We are the laws of chemistry and physics as they have played out here on Earth and we are now learning that planets are as common as stars. Most stars, as it turns out now, will have planets.” YearsMadeHandsEarthLawTurnsLeftStarsCommonBloodPlanetsYears AgoPhysicsBillionsIronChemistryMoleculesStardustLeft Hand Author:Jill Tarter
“Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains.” PeopleThinkingDoeLeftCommonBrainPracticeTechnologyPromiseCivilizationIntelligentContraryRelyAdvanced Technology Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“If mind is common to us, then also the reason, whereby we are reasoning beings, is common. If this be so, then also the reason which enjoins what is to be done or left undone is common. If this be so, law also is common; if this be so, we are citizens; if this be so, we are partakers in one constitution; if this be so, the Universe is a kind of Commonwealth.” IfsMindKindReasonDoneLawUniverseLeftCommonCitizensConstitutionReasoningUndoneCommonwealth Author:Marcus Aurelius
“I think the idea that giant profitable corporations should pay their workers enough so that they don't need food stamps - since when is that left wing? How did that become "leftie?" That doesn't seem leftie to me. That seems common sense.” ThinkingNeedsShouldIdeasEnoughSeemsLeftCommonPayWingsWorkersCommon SenseCorporationsGiantsStampsProfitableLeft WingFood Stamps Author:Nick Hanauer
“And whereas many men, by accident unevitable, become unable to maintain themselves by their labour; they ought not to be left to the Charity of private persons; but to be provided for, (as far-forth as the necessities of Nature require,) by the Lawes of the Common-wealth. For as it is Unchariablenesse in any man, to neglect the impotent; so it is in the Soveraign of a Common-wealth, to expose them to the hazard of such uncertain Charity.” MenPersonsLeftWealthCommonOughtCharityAccidentsLabourNeglectUncertainHazards Author:Thomas Hobbes
“And here come the Left Brothers - Al "747" Sharpton and Jesse "DC 10" Jackson - barreling in for a landing on top of Goodell's dome. And this time every black person with an ounce of common sense and self-respect is riding shotgun with Jesse and Al, who have justifiably voiced their displeasure with Limbaugh's ownership bid.” PersonsSelfLeftBlackCommonBrotherCommon SenseSelf RespectAlsRidingOwnershipLandingDomesBlack PersonShotgunsDispleasure Author:Jason Whitlock
“For Christians, faith is a precious good, the most valuable personal and social resource. When it is left untapped, the common good suffers - not just the particular interests of Christians.” ChristianSufferingLeftSocialInterestCommonParticularResourcesValuableCommon Good Author:Miroslav Volf
“Dombey and Son had often dealt in hides, but never in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and boarding-schools and books. Mr. Dombey would have reasoned: That a matrimonial alliance with himself must, in the nature of things, be gratifying and honourable to any woman of common sense. That the hope of giving birth to a new partner in such a house, could not fail to awaken a glorious and stirring ambition in the breast of the least ambitious of her sex.” GivingHeartBookSchoolFunnyGirlHouseLeftSexCommonBoysFailingSonBirthAmbitionHumorousPartnersCommon SenseFancyGloriousBreastsAmbitiousAlliancesStirringBoy And GirlGiving Birth Author:Charles Dickens
“Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility.” ChildrenReasonLeftCommonMoralityExerciseTreatsFertilityAberrationChildbearing Book:Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility Source: Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility
“There seems to be a common strain of miserliness in the American people when it comes to throwing away toothpaste tubes which havea little left in the bottom.” PeopleLittlesSeemsLeftCommonBottomThrowingStrainTubesToothpasteThrowing Away Author:Robert Benchley
“I use the [vulgar] words because apparently these words do not corrupt morally. I'm from the street in New York, hung around in a tough neighborhood. It was common to curse, you make your point. It's a very effective language. I try not to overdo it. It's never to shock. I know where it fits, it's never to shock. There's no shock value left in words.” KnowsTryingUseValuesLeftLanguageCommonStreetsNew YorkFitToughCurseShockNeighborhoodHungVulgarShock Value Author:George Carlin
“When I look around me, I see mostly women who are alone, left by their husbands after their kids grew up, for a younger woman, which is the most common thing, or suddenly abandoned after getting married and left with young children.” LooksChildrenKidsYoungLeftCommonGrewHusbandMarriedGrew UpAbandonedGetting MarriedYoung ChildrenCommon Things Author:Dacia Maraini