Sense Quotes

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.

Because I was the first super-elite, the press caught on and started calling me a supermodel. So in that sense, I guess I'm the first. But, in my opinion, there were girls that could have been called supermodels before that, if the term was in existence.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations.

I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.

It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty.

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.

I can just sense some eyes, some people kinda stare a little bit like they recognize me but don't quite know for sure kinda thing.

Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.

We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.

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.

Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?