Sense Quotes

My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?

There is a certain sense of loss when a series ends.

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.

I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.

My sense is that, when you look at what people such as former Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have said over the years, you don't go with a story unless you have two independent sources to confirm it.

I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.

I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates.

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.

All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense.

It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.

I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person.

And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.