Sense Quotes
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You have to operate from the sense of everything is new and you're starting again.
Nicole Kidman
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All around me, I see girls forced to become rat racers in the College Application Industrial Complex, the subculture where students must craft themselves into the perfect specimens for college admission and often lose their authenticity, love of learning, and sense of self in the process.
Rachel Simmons
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A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
Alfred Adler
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Inspiration: A miasma originating in the head that pollutes the body and irritates good sense.
Peter Greenaway
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We need to have faith in the future to make sense of the present.
Charles Handy
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Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I object. I object to any killing at all. You know, it's terrible what happened and I think retaliation definitely makes sense and it's definitely one option. But, personally, I prefer peace. You know, maybe I'm just being ignorant and shortsighted, you know, it's true I'm not running the government, I'm not running the United States. I just don't think that killing people is a good way to remedy people dying. Martin Luther King Jr. said that you can murder a murderer but you can never murder murder itself.
Tré Cool Green Day
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It's very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it's done by the seat of your pants. There's a kind of nervy element about it.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
Robert Frost
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I really wanted people to take away that it’s important to have a strong sense of self. It’s important to keep moving forward. It’s important to pay back. It’s important to move the needle.
Nicole Avant
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I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
Louise Erdrich
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Common sense is not really so common. The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic
Antoine Arnauld
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We also have noses that run and feet that smell.Sometimes the universe just doesn't make sense.
Alex Bledsoe
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you, so that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It's an extraordinary thing. It's wild turf up there.
Al Pacino
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The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference.
Edward T. Hall
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When I was younger, I was chubby. It gave me a terrible sense of self-image, and I guess I carry that around with me still.
Brandon Flowers The Killers
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Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.
Katharine Hepburn
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I think people are losing that sense of security pretty fast, frankly.
Avi Lewis
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The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.
Oscar Wilde
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If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences
David Eugene Edwards
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Your preschool child will chatter endlessly to you. If you half-listen and half-reply the whole conversation will seem, and become, tediously meaningless for both of you. but if you really listen and really answer, he will talk more and what he says will make more sense.
Penelope Leach
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Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.
Michael Douglas
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There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners from the texture of existence that surrounds you. The great advantage of being a Southern writer is that we don't have to go anywhere to look for manners; bad or good, we've got them in abundance. We in the South live in a society that is rich in contradiction, rich in irony, rich in contrast, and particularly rich in its speech.
Flannery O'Connor