Sense Quotes - page 14

The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense. (Joshua Ferris)
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. View quote
Amy Bloom
Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises man above the beast. View quote
Elie Ducommun
A sense of identity is the gift of love, and only love can give it. View quote
Elizabeth Goudge
The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word. View quote
Eugenio Montale
Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts. View quote
Elihu Root
Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art. (Carlo Ponti)
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection. View quote
Christopher Lasch
The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense. View quote
Christopher McDougall
We're designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. What's built into that kind of running is a sense of pleasure. You are designed and built and perfect for this activity, and it should be enjoyable and fun. View quote
Christopher McDougall
Evolution's logical, unlike religion. Even the Church will agree with that. You have to take religion on faith and you can't test it by common sense. View quote
Lester del Rey
But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want. View quote
Anita Roddick
Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense. (Joyce Meyer)
I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character. View quote
Suzanne Vega
The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, "My country, right or wrong." In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right. View quote
Carl Schurz
I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books. View quote
Lynn Abbey
I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense. View quote
Anna Sui