Sense Quotes - page 6

There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States. (Walter Russell Mead)
If you are not serious, people will sense it. View quote
Bela Lugosi
There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God. View quote
Bill Cosby
I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world. View quote
John Thomas Sladek
In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us access to recorded knowledge. The Internet gives us access, not just to knowledge, but to the intelligence contained in people's crania, access to the intelligence of people on a global basis. View quote
Don Tapscott
There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism. View quote
Lawrence Wright
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. View quote
Eric Temple Bell
The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads. View quote
Flann O'Brien
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. View quote
John Updike
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead. View quote
John Updike
To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be. (Thomas Ligotti)
Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life. View quote
Gregory Peck
I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to. View quote
Harry S. Truman
My favorite animal is the mule. He has more sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating - and when to stop working. View quote
Harry S. Truman
A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Philosophy is common sense with big words. View quote
James Madison
We're all talking about the same thing, whether it's religious people or New Age spiritual people or Buddhists or scientists. We're all talking about having a sense of awe and wonder at something grander than ourselves. View quote
Michael Shermer
My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a human universal. View quote
Michael Shermer
I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation. View quote
Kim Campbell
However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance -- so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature. View quote
Graham Greene
We mustn't complain too much of being comedians -- it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed -- that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men. (Graham Greene)
The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration. View quote
Paulo Coelho
On the tennis court, one needs a cool temperament, tremendous ball sense, reflexes, speed, hand-eye co-ordination, power, timing and peak physical fitness. Off the court, the player and support team need skills in planning, execution, travel, an ability to raise funds when needed, and several other talents. View quote
Sania Mirza
It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham