Sense Quotes

• The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Health
  • Sense
  • Aphorism

• “Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.”

  

  Anne Royall
  • Reason
  • Sense
  • Fanaticism

• We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.

  

  Francis Spufford
  • Sense
  • Goodness
  • Supposed

• I was married to Glenn Ford. But now I feel as though I'm married to God, and in the nicest, purest sense.

  

  Eleanor Powell
  • God
  • Sense
  • Married

• I think it's terribly difficult to take sex seriously if you've got a sense of humor.

  

  Charlotte Bingham
  • Sex
  • Humor
  • Seriously

• I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks.

  

  Sean William Scott
  • Sense
  • Common

• 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.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Today
  • Feel
  • Lives

• Many people know what they want to have, but have no idea of who they want to be. Getting 'things' simply will not fulfill you. Only living and doing what you believe is 'the right thing' will give you that sense of inner strength that we all deserve.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Know
  • Deserve

• The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Society
  • Relation
  • Businessman

• Passion should always trump common sense.

  

  Robert De Niro
  • Passion
  • Trump
  • Sense

• I want the plot to be as complicated as possible. Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so that it makes sense. I don't think out the plot ahead of time.

  

  Heidi Julavits
  • Sense
  • Ending
  • Plot

• Edie Sedgwick, Debbie Harry, Chloe Sevigny, Michelle Obama, and my friend Eugenie Niarchos each have their own great sense of style.

  

  Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis
  • Style
  • Sense
  • My Friend

• The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in theTaste and Touch; or mediately, as in Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling: which pressure, by the mediation of Nerves, and other strings, and membranes of the body, continued inwards to the Brain, and Heart, causeth there a resistance, or counter- pressure, or endeavor of the heart, to deliver it self: which endeavor because Outward, seemeth to be some matter without.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Body
  • Meditation
  • Hearing

• You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • World
  • Wings
  • Eagles

• I shop a lot online... and just the ease of it makes a lot more sense.

  

  John Varvatos
  • Sense
  • Online
  • Shop

• I'm self-opinionated, and I have a sense of self. I can be brutal with agents and have been.

  

  Paul Eenhoorn
  • Sense
  • Brutal
  • Opinionated

• A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results.

  

  John Gray
  • Man
  • Sense
  • Results

• It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Interesting
  • Stuff
  • Sense

• I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Dreams
  • Sense
  • Difference

• If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.

  

  William Feather
  • Men
  • Sense
  • Common

• If I make a decision it is a possession. I take pride in it, I tend to defend it and not listen to those who question it. If I make sense, then this is more dynamic, and I listen and I can change it. A decision is something you polish. Sensemaking is a direction for the next period.

  

  Paul Gleason
  • Decision
  • Sense
  • Direction

• People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to make money.

  

  Campbell McGrath
  • Poetry
  • Needs
  • Publish

• The only way to make sense, then, of the fact that Jesus came in the power of the Spirit is to understand that he lived his life fundamentally as a man, and as such, he relied on the Spirit to provide the power, grace, knowledge, wisdom, direction, and enablement he needed, moment by moment and day by day, to fulfill the mission the Father sent him to accomplish.

  

  Bruce A. Ware
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Jesus

• Overall, the work of rebuilding and transforming government for the digital age is only just beginning. Governments remain organized according to political and bureaucratic imperatives, not according to what makes the most sense to citizens.

  

  Andrew Leigh
  • Sense
  • Citizens
  • Governments

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