Sense Quotes
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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
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A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships.
John Gray
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Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will, but thine, be done." What, then, does a man mean by saying, Science displaces religion, when in this deep sense science itself springs from religion?
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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. . . 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
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A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.
Raymond E. Feist
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We need to develop a sense of sufficiency to be happy.
Satish Kumar
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You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
Tom Petty
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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Prayer is either petitional or, in its wider sense, inward communion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Actors are, in a sense, like athletes. They've got to stretch once in a while.
Norman Lloyd
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There is a fine sense of freedom that comes from wandering about a familiar city with no particular destination in mind, with no one to meet, no duties, no obligations. I had nothing to do and a thousand nameless, sun-drenched streets to do it in.
Steven Saylor
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“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'm interested is the oblique as a concept deeply connected to human lived experience, not separate from it. I was listening to an interview with film director Stephen Frears on NPR the other day and he said, "People's lives are never what you think they are," or something like that. Human lives are oblique. It makes sense to me that attending to them in language is as well.
Dawn Lundy Martin
