Sense Quotes
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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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I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.
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The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.
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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.
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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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If you want a religion that makes sense, then I suggest something other than Christianity. But if you want a religion that makes life, then, I think this is the one.
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Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.
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Perhaps it makes sense that a creature that doesn't get ill and has few enemies among its neighbors would also live agelessly and die without explanation or cause - would simply vanish without a trace.
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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).
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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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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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Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.
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I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.
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I'm self-opinionated, and I have a sense of self. I can be brutal with agents and have been.
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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.
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Every great artist has the sense of provocation.
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There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.
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One practical point many experts will attest to is that if you want to develop someone as a leader, give them lots of responsibility early in their lives and careers. The military does that. I can remember being officer of the deck on a destroyer, on watch and in charge at two in the morning as we plowed through the Mediterranean while 300 shipmates slept below decks. I was 25 at the time. I don't know how much of a leader I ever became, but the experience certainly brought home to me a sense of responsibility for others.
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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.
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Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody's got a louder mouth than them; it doesn't make any sense.
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Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.
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I know that that doesn't make even a little bit of sense. That was the point, that beautiful incongruence.
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We have to give a sense of economic liberation to the masses and for that, I think the basic thing we have done or we attempted to do, in the beginning, and we have not yet completed that process, is that of land reforms. I think some of the Indian states have been successful in bringing about land reforms but to get a sensation of economic empowerment in society, even a bit of land of their own, is necessary for the common people and it has been shown by Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, which have achieved remarkable economic successes, that land reform was one basic prior thing they did.
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It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.
