Quotes with sense

Quotes 361 till 380 of 696.

  • Bernard Sahlins My theory is that everything an actor does, from the way he looks at his watch to the way he moves across the stage, is in the service of advancing a story, and in that sense, it's all writing. In that sense we, while acting, write.
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  • Dean Acheson Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
    Dean Acheson
    American statesman and lawyer. (1893 - 1971)
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  • Winston Churchill Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Isaac Asimov Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • Anna Quindlen New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Don DeLillo No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.
    (2005)
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Assata Shakur Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.
    Assata: An Autobiography (2016)
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • George Santayana Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Titus Livy Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
    Titus Livy
    Roman historian (59 - 17)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • René Descartes Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
    Original: Le bon sense est la chose du monde la mieux partagée, car chacun pense en être bien pourvu.
    René Descartes
    French philosopher, scientist (1596 - 1650)
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  • Ivern Ball Nothing makes your sense of humor disappear faster than having someone ask where it is.
    Ivern Ball
    American author (1926 - 1992)
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  • Oscar Wilde Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Ruskin Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself - my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness - darkness - bitter mockery of herself - is the most desolating.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Pablo Picasso Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Plato Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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