Sense Quotes - page 8

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it. (Elvis Costello)
I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it on the way. View quote
A. A. Milne
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch. View quote
John Dryden
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence. View quote
John Dryden
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. View quote
Abraham Joshua Heschel
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. View quote
Edward Albee
One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand. View quote
Edward Albee
I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense. View quote
Coretta Scott King
If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor. View quote
Teri Garr
Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture. (Jane Jacobs)
A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same. View quote
Djuna Barnes
The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense. View quote
Ann Richards
I believe that architects should design gardens to be used, as much as the houses they build, to develop a sense of beauty and the taste and inclination toward the fine arts and other spiritual values. View quote
Luis Barragán
Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics. View quote
George Reisman
I'm not insane, sir,” I said. "I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk. View quote
John Scalzi
It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed. View quote
Simon Conway Morris
Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward. View quote
Maxwell Maltz
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life. View quote
Tom Stoppard
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question. View quote
Samuel Richardson
By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication. (Ralph Ellison)
No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die. View quote
Don DeLillo
When I said that I make out with dudes, there was a slight sense of sexual rebellion in that. And I probably even made it a bigger deal than it was. View quote
Peter Wentz
Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal. View quote
Martin Amis
To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread, we were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense. View quote
John Irving