Quotes with sense

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  • William Shakespeare That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat.
    Hamlet 3, 4
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • George Meredith That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Bartlett Sher That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.
    Bartlett Sher
    American theatre director (1959 - )
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  • Barbara Hershey That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.
    Barbara Hershey
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Beth Henley That's what I like about [smoking]... taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein The 'cash for clunkers' program was a big success in part because it gave people the sense that the economy was moving.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • W. H. Auden The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Phyllis Schlafly The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government.
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Archibald Macleish The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie The art of the three-minute song is more like journalism than writing a big 400-page book. You want to be brief, you want to make sense right yen and there. And sometimes that takes a bit of work.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Carlisle Floyd The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Lord George Byron The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Caity Lotz The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
    Caity Lotz
    American actress, dancer and singer (1986 - )
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  • Euripides The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Archibald Macleish The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Norman Cousins The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Billy Crudup The characters that I'm typically drawn to are sensitive men who are experiencing some sense of identity crisis or growth in their life that they don't know how to overcome.
    Billy Crudup
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Cyril Parkinson The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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