Sense Quotes
-
People love science and all it offers, but they also feel a calling in themselves to the sense of what's deeper.
Adam Frank
-
One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
Alan Rickman
-
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
Moliere
-
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
-
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.
Ephrem the Syrian
-
We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.
Francis Spufford
-
Suspend for a moment your disbelief and encounter once again the sense of wonder you knew when there was... magic!
Andrew Lord
-
Men are always good to fools and perfect idiots,” cried Henny impatiently. “A man will run ten miles from a woman with sense.
Christina Stead
-
Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
Hannah Arendt
-
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
-
The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.
John Ruskin
-
I'm self-opinionated, and I have a sense of self. I can be brutal with agents and have been.
Paul Eenhoorn
-
I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.
Norman MacCaig
-
A sense of duty imprisons you.
Jenny Holzer
-
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
-
I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now, which is the substitution for a real sense of a country of a hideous distortion which you can sell to the people called 'heritage'.
Peter Porter
-
Who of us would have ended up where we are if someone hadn't had the good sense to interfere with us?
Connie Brockway
-
So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)
Hermann Hesse
-
I'm not an entertainer; I'm an engager. I never sell myself, in a sense.
Morten Harket A-ha
-
I'm not dissatisfied, just not satisfied in an ultimate sense.
Ariel Pink
-
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.
Avan Jogia
-
In Iraq, the public has lost all sense of self; it exists only in the form artificially imparted to it by “its” regime. This was an outcome of statification, party growth, and all the other indices that have been discussed.442 The dissolution of Iraqi identity is the most fundamental explanation for why no connection existed in Baʿthist Iraq between military achievements and extending or withholding political allegiance.
Kanan Makiya
-
And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.
Aristotle
-
That is another reason this transition for me into soaps makes sense for me, because I would get to work at my craft every day. I would be able to play this very real character.
Darius McCrary