Sense Quotes

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another.

I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.

I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening.

A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.

Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.

I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.

I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense.

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Jobs are what give people a sense of fulfillment and self-reliance.

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.

Italians have no sense of the dramatic.

You've got to have a sense of humour about sex. When you look at it, it's all pretty ridiculous, isn't it?

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.

At Netflix, we think you have to build a sense of responsibility where people care about the enterprise. Hard work, like long hours at the office, doesn't matter as much to us. We care about great work.

I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense.