Quotes with sense

  • As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
  • People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards they say that they've had no sense that they were watching an old fashioned play.
  • One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.
  • If I was producing something, it wouldn't make sense to me to cast somebody because of who their father is because that doesn't put anyone in the seats in the theatre. I wouldn't go to a movie because that person's father is so and so.
  • And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
  • Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.
  • One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
  • I tend to write the episodes in the middle of the season, which can be a challenge because you've got to balance all these threads that have begun - and also make sure they will make sense with the overall plan going forward.
  • What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.
  • In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.
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  • Jean Baudrillard Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Thomas Gray Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.
    Thomas Gray
    British poet (1716 - 1771)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Hannah Arendt The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Common sense is genius in homespun.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Stephen R. Covey People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Charlie McCarthy Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
    Charlie McCarthy
     
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  • Billy Graham A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Alfred Adler A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Anthony Hecht A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
    Anthony Hecht
    American poet (1923 - 2004)
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  • Bertrand Russell A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Samuel Butler Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Harry S. Truman Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • William E. Rothschild Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.
    William E. Rothschild
    American author (1933 - )
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  • Shirley Hazzard Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
    Shirley Hazzard
     
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  • Bob Ney Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Albert Einstein Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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