Sense Quotes

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

I guess it is the sense of personal satisfaction that racing gives you that I am probably going to miss, because in racing you get that feedback very quickly.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

I'm girlie in the sense that I like makeup, but I also love sports and man food.

There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.

Sense of humor is important in life, not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige.

What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency.

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.

Due to the reliance on the old heavy industries in many parts of the country, it makes perfect sense that we need to spend more money per head of population on welfare support in Scotland.

In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately.

You'll read things and say, this is a really good project and it's probably going to be a hit, but I can see 20 other people playing that part. You have to have some sense of ownership to do a good job and be married to it for ever.

They just didn't have the sense of the strength of their vote. Just thought it wasn't necessary.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

So in one sense you don't have the classic keyboard player in Yes.

I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.