Good Sense Quotes - Page 2

• The first time we meet another person an insidious little voice in our heads says, "I might wear eyeglasses or be chunky around the hips or a girl, but at least I'm not Gay or Black or a Jew." Meaning: I may be me- but at least I have the good sense not to be YOU.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Girl, Gay, Voice

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.4, Random House

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• You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Force, Folks, Ifs

  Patricia C. Wrede (2011). “Across the Great Barrier”, p.121, Scholastic Inc.

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• It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Dog, Falling In Love, Dixie

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “Because of Winn-Dixie”, p.12, Candlewick Press

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• I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten. It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.

  David Levithan

  Teacher, Gay, Self

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.8, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion.

  Jane Austen

  Sweet, Kindness, Grateful

  Jane Austen (2013). “Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Love and Friendship and Other Austin Works”, p.700, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Shakespeare put no children in his plays for a reason," Sir Godfrey muttered, glaring at Alf and Binnie. "You're forgetting the Little Prince," Polly reminded him. "Who he had the good sense to kill off in the second act," snapped Sir Godfrey.

  Connie Willis

  Children, Play, Littles

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• It’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Trouble, Wayne, Happens

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel”, p.120, Macmillan

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• It does so happen to be the case that if the freedom of the people of this country - and especially the rights of trade unionists - if those precious things in the past had been left to the good sense and fairmindedness of judges, we would have precious few freedoms in this country.

  Michael Foot

  Country, Past, Rights

  Michael Foot's speech to the Union of Post Office Workers in Bournemouth, May 15, 1977.

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• There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Order, Self, Habit

  First annual message, 1881.

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• I think MySpace is doomed, I give them about two more years.... I think Facebook is the next Microsoft in both the bad and the good senses. That's an amazing company that is going to do a lot of good and bad things.

  Jimmy Wales

  Thinking, Years, Two

  Orlando Sentinel, November 03, 2007.

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• It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.

  Sophocles

  Speak, Dishonor

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.47, University of Chicago Press

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• Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works.

  Tom Robbins

  Writing, Novelists, Fiction

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• The friendship that we established early on in our marriage ... that carries you through tough times. That and a good sense of humor.

  Barack Obama

  Tough Times, Sense Of Humor, Carrie

  FaceBook post by Barack Obama from Oct 10, 2012

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• But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Age, Delight, Moral

  "Satires (Satire 9)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1716.

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• When you strip away the rhetoric, preservation is simply having the good sense to hold on to things that are well designed, that link us with our past in a meaningful way, and that have plenty of good use left in them.

  Richard Moe

  Meaningful, Past, Use

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• I just like boys who are good-looking, really! I like people who are tall with a good sense of style. My faves are the indie look, the smart look or the surfer look.

  Pixie Lott

  Smart, Boys, People

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• All in all, I think that out of all musical genres, the world of metal is the most escapist one. Metal is also music for people who think for themselves. I think metalheads are smart people who possess a healthy dose of self-irony and a good sense of humor, and that appeals to me. I felt a strong affinity with the scene from the first moment on.

  Tuomas Holopainen

  Music, Strong, Smart

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• It's unwise to presume on the future... It makes good sense to plan for tomorrow today, but there's a problem with thinking we can always do later the good we can do now.

  Mark Beeson

  Thinking, Today, Tomorrow

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• I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.

  Jon Fishman

  Thinking, Band, Want

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• I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

  Gordon Gee

  College, President, Skins

  "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• when anybody talks to me as if I hadn't good sense, I'm immediately tempted to act as if I hadn't. Like sticking beans up your nose. ... you know the story about the mother who said to her children the last thing before she went out, Now be sure not to stick beans up your nose? Naturally, they would never have thought of it if she hadn't put the idea into their heads.

  Helen Eustis

  Mother, Children, Ideas

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• The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.

  Ann Richards

  Smart, Self, Perfect

  "Ann Richards Discusses Texas, Politics and Humor". "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. January 23, 2001.

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• When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.

  Richard Rohr

  Half, Firsts, Wells

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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• Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.

  Samuel Richardson

  Honesty, Politeness

  Samuel Richardson (1810). “The History of Sir Charles Grandison: In a Series of Letters”, p.386

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• I like to do from racing my radio control cars to doing work at the zoo to poems to the TV show. There are a lot of things that I like to involve myself with, but I have a pretty packed schedule nine times out of ten. I have a good sense of working things in at the same time so that I can get all my hobbies in line.

  Dhani Jones

  Zoos, Tv Shows, Car

  "Dhani Jones: "I'm Gonna Be The First Black James Bond"". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. December 10, 2009.

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