Sense Quotes
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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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Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.
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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.
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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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Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
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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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Is this what real homelessness is like? Not just a particular set of roof and walls gone, but a sense of the death of companionship?
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Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.
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I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks.
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I don't work with anyone out of a sense of charity. I use people as long as they are useful to me.
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I think it's terribly difficult to take sex seriously if you've got a sense of humor.
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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'.
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A lot of people can't be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
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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.
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Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.
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Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture.
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A prayer makes sense only if it is lived.
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To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.
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A sense of duty imprisons you.
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The drive for working comes from everyday moments - the thrill of experiencing a young cook succeeding in what they thought was an impossible job, as well as guests being happy. I also love the unknown - discovering new things and trying to make sense of them.
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Never lose your sense of the superficial.
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Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within us an ever-increasing sense of the worth of creation. It is about how we can develop and deepen our intuitive sense of beauty and creativity.
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When a “founding father’s” remarks about “liberty” don’t seem to make sense, substitute the word “property” and they do.
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Behind their lively, searching eyes one senses a doubting, a contemplative personality, always trying to make sense out of a puzzling world.
