Sense Quotes
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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 -
“Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.”
Anne Royall
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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.
Gerard Butler -
I'm self-opinionated, and I have a sense of self. I can be brutal with agents and have been.
Paul Eenhoorn -
My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.
Robin Williams -
The best part about getting older is realizing that everything makes sense given enough time.
Katrina Mayer -
We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.
Francis Spufford -
I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known, but rather, the desire for something unknown, animate desire for something that lies beyond ourselves, a longing for something we know is missing in us.
Bernadette Roberts
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Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things.
Joshua Prager -
Who of us would have ended up where we are if someone hadn't had the good sense to interfere with us?
Connie Brockway -
There are two things in the world that can never get together- religion & common sense.
George William Foote -
It just isn't the way you've been told. Let me give you an example: Time makes no sense. It really doesn't apply to me; it doesn't fit. My hair gets thin and I can't stay up all night the way I used to. But I don't change.
Arthur J. Deikman -
. . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings. . . .
Immanuel Kant -
Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.
Isaac Marion
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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.
Elizabeth Wordsworth -
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 -
Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.
George Sewell -
Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.
George Bernard Shaw -
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 -
Songwriting has always been a means to an end for me. That end being a tool to try to understand myself in the world and, through observation, make sense of the world.
Ruston Kelly
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People love science and all it offers, but they also feel a calling in themselves to the sense of what's deeper.
Adam Frank -
I think I have a great sense of me as a person.
Chamique Holdsclaw -
I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.
Jasper Fforde -
Don't forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
Ina May Gaskin