Sense Quotes
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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.
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There’s no sense crying over what can’t be changed” “that’s what people cry over, things they can’t change”
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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.
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It does not make much sense to have another meeting if there is nothing new to put on the table.
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The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.
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Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio Buendía was not as crazy as the family said, but that he was the only one who had enough lucidity to sense the truth of the fact that time also stumbled and had accidents and could therefore splinter and leave an eternalized fragment in a room.
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I like to do things that are new, where I feel the sense of discovery.
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Much learning does not teach sense.
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The Pope, if nothing else, should be a Catholic. If he were to announce that women would make great priests, except it's a pity that more of them aren't gay, because of the greater compassion they could bring to the task, it might endear him to liberal Catholic commentators , but it would make him something other than a Catholic, in the true sense.
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Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.
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It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.
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It’s good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn’t lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.
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We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists.
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Blessed the one who has kept the mastery of his eyelids and has not deceived himself with either mind or sense with regard to the skin of the flesh that after a little while oozes putrefaction.
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The first time when you can really get a sense of what the movie is going to look and feel like is when you're in a casting room and seeing it.
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A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.
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Don't make sense, make change.
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I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her - that melts my heart.
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Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.
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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.
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We've invested millions of dollars in tourism. Now they're trying to industrialize and pollute the ocean. It doesn't make any sense to me at all.
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I tried to write things, but they were so ridiculous and stupid and impossible and I had not a clue what they were, so that delusion went on for a long time. Maybe it's still going on, only somehow I sucked some people in. It was a long time of writing things that didn't make sense in the real world, and I'm embarrassed about them now in a jocular way.
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There's a sureness to good writing even when what's being written about doesn't make all that much sense. It's the sureness of the so-called seat of an accomplished horseback rider or a sailor coming about in a strong wind. The words have both muscle and grace, familiarity and surprise.
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We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.
