Sense Quotes

The maid told him that a girl and a child had come looking for him, but since she didn't know them, ...

Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.

Common sense is very uncommon.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.

When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of...

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which...

If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.

At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, al...

No one ought even to desert a woman after throwing her a heap of gold in her distress! He ought to l...

I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like ...

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by othe...

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sen...

I'll never know the right answer for sex and marriage, sense and mirage.

the rent here may be low but i believe we have it on very hard terms --sense & sensibility

Upon my word, Emma, to hear you abusing the reason you have, is almost enough to make me think so to...

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all...

Well, I miss my wife, you know," I said. "But I also miss the feeling of, I don’t know, comfort. The...

What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness. This relates to...

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.

It doesn't make any sense... that's why I trust it!

A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor.

Truth is stranger than fiction fiction has to make sense.

I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?" "Never mind," Fflewddur said, ...

Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant—so that he constantly call...

It was like every attitude or action which reveals a man's deep and hidden character; they bear no r...

Some might question whether it makes sense to talk about setting up the experiment and running it ag...

I am a believer in sensible choices, so different from many of my own. Also in sensible names for ch...

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense...

Love is the opposite of good sense.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

God has a most wicked sense of humor.

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of ...

With age comes common sense and wisdom.

You see, until then I'd been driven. I'd had a true quest, a purpose beyond my function - and then s...

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop mea...

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

When life doesn't make sense, we can still have peace.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of...

I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

I do not have a sense of humor of any recognizable sort.

Common sense is in spite of not the result of education.

Chance is a word void of sense nothing can exist without a cause.

Common sense is not so common.

Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by...

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

But these people _announced_ their madness . . . they flaunted their insanity, they weren't half mad...

The death of marriage has been announced so often and would seem so normal, in a sense. So what's su...

I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God ...

We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a sce...

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound,Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

Remembrance and reflection how allied!What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable rea...

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith in...

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.

It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarce...

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

Humans don’t make sense.”“If you’re only now learning that,” Kaladin said, “then you haven’t been pa...

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madn...

I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.

I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've f...

I like the relaxed way in which the Japanese approach religion. I think of myself as basically a mor...

But when we train the senses we conserve our vital energy, the very stuff of life. Patient and secur...

I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Learning stamps you with it's moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. ...

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic ...

That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

It was like someone far away calling someone else’s name.