Sense Quotes

The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

Besides, it doesn't make any sense to have these characters living in the year 3000 when all their points of reference are from the pop culture of the 80's and the 90's.

Men with style are great because they have a sense of self.

I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not.

People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.

Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again.

Cause I was such a novice and thank God that Sarah was as seasoned as she was because she was really a great leader in that regard in the sense that she would communicate really well with the crew.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?

For this to make sense, of course, it would have to be a fair financial deal for us. But I think this could be the occasion for us to build a true partnership in content. And we're especially interested because interactive services are a key field for us.

So, in a sense, the verification piece is irrelevant to the format issue.

I have a dark sense of humor.

When I see myself at 14 years old I can put my hands on my head and think: 'How could I have done that?' but at that time it had sense for me. You do the same when you're 20. And now, when you look at people who are 20 years old you ask yourself: 'Was I like that? Was I really like that?'

I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now, which is the substitution for a real sense of a country of a hideous distortion which you can sell to the people called 'heritage'.

I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great - once I could have a giggle, I settled down.

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.