Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
Candace Bushnell -
My silver cord – the link between my body and my spirit – was extremely sensitive. It was what allowed me to sense dreamscapes at a distance. It could also snap me back into my skin.
Samantha Shannon -
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
Haniel Long -
I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.
Damien Chazelle -
If Europe's outer border is not blocked off, it makes no sense to speak of quotas.
Viktor Orban -
'Lost' makes a lot of sense to me, philosophically.
G. Willow Wilson
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Place hitting is, in a sense, glorified bunting. I only take a half swing at the ball, and the weight of the bat rather than my swing is what drives it.
Edd Roush -
I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
People miss those who they love. It brings tears to my eyes to see the longing for me. But it's my decision to do fewer films and more protagonist-based roles. For me to take up something, it has to make a lot of sense to me.
Rani Mukerji -
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Carl Jung -
Childishness? I think it's the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, yes there's a certain something that you retain. It's the equivalent of not getting so stuffy that you can't laugh at others.
Walt Disney -
The 'social contract,' in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest.
Bertrand Russell
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May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
Albert Einstein -
Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.
Albert Einstein -
I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
Little Richard -
I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.
Yunus Emre -
Children who are accustomed to being treated well internalize that treatment and have a permanent sense of well-being. But children whose every need is instantly gratified and who are constantly praised to the skies do not have the same sense of well-being; rather they may feel despair or rage when that gratification is withheld, or when everyone doesn't glorify them in the same way.
Victoria Secunda -
In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.
Rachel Caine
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The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.
Lauren Graham -
The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor of mankind. Nietzsche considered that evolution presented a correct picture of the world, but that it was a disastrous picture. His philosophy was an attempt to produce a new world-picture which took Darwinism into account but was not nullified by it.
R. J. Hollingdale -
We're all unique as actors. To yourself, you are unique. You have to think, 'I'm me. I'm not going to bunch myself with other people.' Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.
Imelda Staunton -
It is unlawful to add anything to the words of Holy Scripture regarding the sense.
Thomas Aquinas