Sense Quotes
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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.
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Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.
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Passion should always trump common sense.
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We have an intuitive sense of our duty.
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There are two things in the world that can never get together- religion & common sense.
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My father was a dictator in the true German sense. He suppressed my mother.
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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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Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.
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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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Today I've written to the EU Commission urging an end to the "use-it-or-lose-it" rule that's leading to 'ghost planes' during this COVID-19 outbreak. Temporary relief now makes both environmental and financial sense.
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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.
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It's kind of a protest song. My objective is to make sense of foreign policy decisions taken by the current Bush administration and showing how they resemble solipsistic bullying.
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The best part about getting older is realizing that everything makes sense given enough time.
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In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded.
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Confidence, knowing for certain that the person making the call has your safety foremost in their mind. And knowing that the job you are about to take on is the right thing to do, that it makes sense.
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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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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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Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.
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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.
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“Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.”
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I had learnt to seek intensity — more of life, a concentrated sense of life.
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Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.
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I never know exactly where I'm going with a story, whether it's a short story or a novel. If I did I'd soon grow bored of it. The fun, for me, is in the finding out and the making sense of it.
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'Jazz Artist of the Century' would have to be a distinctive soloist and ensemble player, a composer, an arranger, a bandleader, and a driver; would have to span all the genres and periods of jazz; would have to have run her own label; [would] possess a deep spirituality, with grace and a sense of humor; and would have to have succeeded against all odds. Who else? Mary Lou Williams.
