Sense Quotes
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I love things that are harsh and things that are too loud. And I love lulling people into a false sense of security. That's life.
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In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?
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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.
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I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me – but the process of actually crafting it is essential.
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It's crazy: when it's raining, it makes no sense to me that people drive 10 miles an hour faster than they normally would, but then the other thing that makes no sense is when people drive 30 miles an hour slower than normal.
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Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain living chatty familiarity. And not only does each book inspire the sense that it belongs to its readers, but it also suggests the name of others, and one begets the desire of the other.
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The way I was grew up gave me a slight fearlessness and a sense of independence. There are things about it that have definitely informed me. And then, as a parent, it's done the opposite. It's made me feel much more protective. There are boundaries in my kids' lives that I don't think I had.
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I love arguing with you, Claire. You always surprise me. And occasionally, you even make sense.
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By sticking it out through tough times, people emerge from adversity with a stronger sense of efficacy.
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I'm here to make sense.
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Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.
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This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.
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What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.
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If we are not one, we are not in the true sense of the word the disciples of the Lord Jesus.
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We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
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When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster.
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Things are fragile, but we're all being carried and I think we're all on our path in that sense. As fragile as things are, we're still getting there.
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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.
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I think you have to love yourself and you have to have a strong sense of self-love in order to really show up for other people, because if you love yourself, you're not questioning your own mind any more and you are really able to be present and available for others.
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That's the beauty of song writing. You never know when inspiration will come or how it will hit, you just gotta kinda grasp a hold of it and make sense of it somehow.
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We are likely to feel better when we go to bed tonight if we have an internal sense that we spent our lives meaningfully today.
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For me, Warhol made so much sense.
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My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.
