Sense Quotes

• A prayer makes sense only if it is lived.

  

  Anthony of Sourozh
  • Prayer
  • Sense
  • Lived

• Don't forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Humor
  • Sense
  • Labor

• If it doesn't make sense, it's usually not true.

  

  Judy Sheindlin
  • True
  • Sense
  • Make

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

  

  Charlotte Bingham
  • Sex
  • Humor
  • Seriously

• When you are a certain age or when you have lost certain things and people, Aimee’s crippling grief will make a terrible poisoned dark sense.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • People
  • Sense
  • Grief

• Never lose your sense of the superficial.

  

  Alfred Harmsworth
  • Sense
  • Lose
  • Superficial

• Maybe she would have done more good as a playwright than as a doctor, after all - clichés were like plaque in the arteries of the imagination, they clogged the sense of what was possible. Maybe if enough people had worked to demolish clichés, the world wouldn't have ended.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Possible
  • Doctor
  • Playwright

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

  

  John Gray
  • Man
  • Sense
  • Results

• Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things.

  

  Joshua Prager
  • Writing
  • Sense
  • Helped

• The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we're so bombarded with so much imagery and such a great sense of inhumanity, and there is a coarseness, a coarsening of interaction.

  

  Steven Bochco
  • Sense
  • Entertainment
  • Inhumanity

• We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.

  

  Nathan M. Pusey
  • Learn
  • Sense
  • Role

• 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

• Behind their lively, searching eyes one senses a doubting, a contemplative personality, always trying to make sense out of a puzzling world.

  

  Adriaan Kortlandt
  • World
  • Personality
  • Sense

• It doesn't make any sense to me to start on the interior of the forest if you haven't first protected around the areas where the communities are.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • Sense
  • Forest
  • Communities

• The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

  

  Joshua Ferris
  • Sense
  • Questions
  • Answer

• It's not the timbre but the intonation. You're a questioner. You don't have the sense that you know exactly what you're talking about.

  

  Norah Vincent
  • Sense
  • Talking
  • Intonation

• A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships.

  

  John Gray
  • Woman
  • Sense
  • Relationships

• 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

• It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius.

  

  George Pope Morris
  • Genius
  • Sense
  • Sensibility

• Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by sense.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Language
  • Sense
  • Writer

• In a very simple sense I want everything that's in a work to be there for the reason that it's needed. It's not an ornamentation. It's not there because I thought it looked nice but because it has to be there.

  

  Paul Cullen
  • Work
  • Reason
  • Sense

• Comedy is so collaborative. You're going to come up with better jokes with people you like joking around with. It just makes sense.

  

  Nicholas Kroll
  • Comedy
  • Sense
  • Collaborative

• When our worries and fears just don't make sense, it's possible we are trusting the part of the brain that doesn't make sense... it just reacts.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Brain
  • Fears
  • Worries

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