Sense Quotes - page 16

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you. (E. Stanley Jones)
It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure. View quote
Frederick Sanger
The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed. View quote
Federica Montseny
For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important. View quote
Felicity Kendal
All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth. View quote
Ferdinand Mount
The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive. View quote
Geraldine Ferraro
It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation. View quote
Gavin Bryars
The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street. View quote
Gavin Newsom
In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music. View quote
George Crumb
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings. View quote
Henry Mayhew
We each have a sixth sense that is attuned to the oneness dimension in life, providing a means for us to guide our lives in accord with our ideas. (Henry Reed)
There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations. View quote
Henry Reed
I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse. View quote
Ivan Reitman
I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise. View quote
Leo Kottke
I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world. View quote
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives. View quote
Morris Chestnut
Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering. View quote
Owen Arthur
It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work. View quote
Philip Levine
I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor. View quote
Patricia Clarkson
It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense. View quote
Rita Coolidge
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. (Robert Jarvik)
What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done. View quote
Robert Wyatt
I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history. View quote
Roland Joffe
My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have. View quote
Stephan Jenkins
A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature. View quote
Trevor Nunn