There ought to be at least as much common sense about living and dying as there is about going to the grocery store and buying a loaf of bread.
– Dalton Trumbo
Related Quotes:
- The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one. – Erma Bombeck
- A slice of bread eaten is a million times more nourishing than a loaf of bread imagined. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- 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
- There are plenty of laws to protect guys’ money even in war time but there’s nothing on the books says a man’s life’s his own. – Dalton Trumbo
- My grandma Ruthie, Jettie’s sister, had been married four times, so many times I started calling every old man I saw at the grocery store Grandpa. – Molly Harper
- The Lord turned water into wine. All I’m suggesting is a trip to the grocery store. – Jodi Picoult
- After we bring food home from the grocery store…Dogs must think we are the greatest hunters ever! – Ann Taylor
- God can turn stones into bread, and a sinner can turn bread into stones; the bread of life into the stone of stumbling. – Thomas Watson
- Ask for work. If they don’t give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread. – Emma Goldman
- Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread. – Jennifer Donnelly
- You believe stealing is wrong, but if your family was starving and could not afford bread, wouldn’t you say it’s okay to steal a loaf to feed them? – AJ Darkholme
- CoMMOn SeNSe iS nOt sO cOmMOn aMoNg coMMon pEOPLe… – DeOLs
- Somewhere between buying 25 friendship bands and passing by the shop with a smile looking at kids buying the bands, we grew up – Anamika Mishra
- … that when you’re buying books, you’re optimistically thinking you’re buying the time to read them.(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer) – Arthur Schopenhauer
- Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense. – William Thomson
- We are always dying, all the time. That’s what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths. – Chuck Klosterman
- The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question. – Nikolai A Berdyaev
- Taggle was absorbed in the meat pie. -˜It’s covered in BREAD,’ he huffed. -˜What fool has covered MEAT with BREAD? – Erin Bow
- Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh ????er, the greatest of feasts. – James Beard
- I like bread, and I like ????er – but I like bread with ????er best. – Sarah Weiner
- For most of us a job is bread and ????er and for most of others its just bread and ????er. – Aniruddha Sastikar
- A nation can be mighty, when the citizens put away their political differences, work together for a common vision, a common goal and a common good. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Some are in tune with the swanky, but not in tune with themselves. Their desire has become the desire of the others (”’Buying now. Dying later”’) – Erik Pevernagie
- One’s own form of sensibility is not not necessarily another’s. Common sense is not so common. – Gillian Duce
- In a world of common nonsense, our best defence is common sense. – Juliet Castle
- common sense is embedded in common things – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- I Don’t use common sense i use senses that’s way more significant than common !! – jojo
- Remember, the most common thing about common sense is how uncommon it is. – Jason Jennings
- Mankind thinks only of living because he is dying, and it is only in dying that he gains his freedom to live – Judy Azar LeBlanc
- Never lose your sense of common sense. – Debasish Mridha
- Don’t worry about the future, sooner or later it’s the past. If they say the feeling’s gone then it’s time to take it back. – Meat Loaf
- A slice is a loaf to a mouse. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- At least he possessed enough sense to recognize how little sense he possessed. – Daniel McHugh
- Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value. – Haruki Murakami
- Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
- Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
- Then sense. Use your sense. Not all of us are born for greatness, but all of us have sense. Make use of it. Think. Think long and well. – Richard Llewellyn
- Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity. – Ernest Hemingway
- Christmas ought to be brought up to date,- Maria said. -œIt ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols. – John Masefield