My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.

We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.

It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House.

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

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

But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law.

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.