Sense Quotes

• It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense.

  

  Robert Frost
  • World
  • Hard
  • Sense

• Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Sense
  • Equal
  • Exertion

• In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Lost
  • Person
  • Laughter

• With song titles, I try to keep a healthy sense of humor while saying something at the same time.

  

  Alejandro Ghersi
  • Song
  • Sense
  • Saying

• I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Liberty
  • Sense
  • Conscience

• The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.

  

  George Eliot
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Sense

• There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Community
  • Rock
  • Sense

• The view of nature, which is the immediate object of sense, is very imperfect, and of small extent; but, by the assistance of art, and the aid of reason, becomes enlarged, till it loses itself in infinity.

  

  Colin Maclaurin
  • Nature
  • Sense
  • Extent

• In some sense we are all hypocrites in transition.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Sense
  • Transition
  • Hypocrites

• The sense of duty pursues us ever.

  

  Joseph Cook
  • Sense
  • Duty
  • Pursues

• A shocked sense of justice has to be removed and justice restored.

  

  Ndabaningi Sithole
  • Justice
  • Sense
  • Restored

• He was pretty educated about what we do in a general sense.

  

  Eileen Collins
  • Sense
  • Educated

• One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Imagination
  • Sense
  • Director

• When we get our sense of self from only one place, when something goes wrong and the inevitable happens, it can crush you emotionally, spiritually and physically. So it’s important not to believe you are defined by one place, one relationship or one thing, and to find ways to keep your sense of self strong.

  

  Kat Cole
  • Important
  • Crush
  • Inevitable

• Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and put out of conceit with themselves.

  

  Elizabeth Wordsworth
  • Small
  • Sense
  • Disheartened

• Narcissists ... have the least sense of self of anybody on the planet.

  

  Anna C Salter
  • Sense
  • Self
  • Narcissists

• I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Business
  • Organization
  • Memory

• As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that I was seized with a violent tremour.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Sense
  • Appearance
  • Vague

• Knowing that your sense of fashion and the culture it's connected to is valid really makes it a stronger thing for you.

  

  Winston Duke
  • Sense
  • Thing
  • Knowing

• I think people are losing that sense of security pretty fast, frankly.

  

  Avi Lewis
  • Sense
  • Security
  • Losing

• 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
  • Men
  • Judge
  • Sense

• It occurred to me, then, how nearly real life resembles the first rehearsal of a play. We are all of us stumbling through it, doing our best to say the proper lines and make the proper moves, but not quite comfortable yet in the parts we've been given. Still, like players who trust that -despite all evidence to the contrary- the whole mess will make sense eventually, we keep on going, hoping that somehow things will work out for the best.

  

  Gary L. Blackwood
  • Work
  • Moving
  • Player

• Playing something like that is always a sense of achievement ... It's nice there's a station that's willing to provide that type of outlet for bands. It'll be the first (time playing that early).

  

  Carlos PenaVega Big Time Rush
  • Playing
  • Achievement
  • Station

• It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.

  

  Alexander Crummell
  • Soul
  • Sense
  • Utterances

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