Sense Quotes - page 13

If you look at the Earth without architecture, its sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether its a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings. (Peter Zumthor)
The early pioneers of both wellness and network marketing were motivated by the sense that it was possible to create a better life than the conventional routes offered - better personal health and better economic health, respectively. Now the 'alternatives' of yesterday have become the economic powerhouses of today and tomorrow. View quote
Paul Zane Pilzer
Im a person of faith, and the language that I use to define my faith, the symbols and metaphors that I rely upon to express my faith, are those provided by Islam because they make the most sense to me. View quote
Reza Aslan
In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created. View quote
Andrew Weil
Some big businessmen did contribute to the Nazi election funds but German capitalism cannot be regarded, on the evidence, as having collectively brought fascism to power in any direct sense. Fascism in Germany was a mass movement brought to power through collusion with a bankrupt but traditional elite, not as the puppet of big business. View quote
Richard Overy
My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised. View quote
Robin Wright
Democracy in the sense of political equality and majority rule is by no means the most desirable, that is, optimal solution for all kinds of associations. View quote
Robert A. Dahl
Though I often run out of courage and good sense, stubbornness keeps me going. View quote
Simon R. Green
It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life. View quote
Sebastian Barry
What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place. View quote
Stephen Greenblatt
I'm always impressed by confidence, kindness and a sense of humour. (Tamara Mellon)
From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint you most bitterly, but up close it can hit you as a bewildering surprise. View quote
Tom Perrotta
But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war. View quote
Ulrich Beck
In the first place I have an enormous regard for common sense. Any time we discover some great thing and it contradicts common sense, we better go back to the laboratory and check it. View quote
Harry Harlow
The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is. View quote
Chogyam Trungpa
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. View quote
Shakti Gawain
I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I'm with you I have this sense that you want something from me. View quote
Junot Diaz
I have a lot on my mind and not a lot to do so it's going to come out, all of it, and then, then, it may begin to make a sort of sense. View quote
Bryan Lee O'Malley
Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important. View quote
Gary Shteyngart
I wanted to be a pilot. I loved flying and I loved all the technology and the equipment and the sense of adventure that came with it. I think that feeling still bleeds over into everything I do today. View quote
Graham Brown
A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience. (Diane Keaton)
Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race. View quote
Giambattista Vico
Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga. View quote
J. Courtney Sullivan
We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy. View quote
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good. View quote
John Bradshaw