Quotes with sense

Quotes 541 till 560 of 696.

  • Bob Newhart The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Carl Schurz The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.
    Carl Schurz
    American statesman, journalist, and reformer (1829 - 1906)
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  • Arthur Helps The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
    Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The sense of existence is the greatest happiness.
    Contarini Fleming (1832) III, ch 1
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Alice Meynell The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Norman Cousins The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Mme de Stael The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
    Mme de Stael
    French-Swiss novelist and essayist (1766 - 1817)
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  • Walter Bagehot The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • B. F. Skinner The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called conditioning. In operant conditioning we strengthen an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.
    Science and Human Behavior
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Leonard Cohen The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • George Santayana The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Aldous Huxley The trouble with fiction, said John Rivers, is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Iain Banks The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.
    (2013)
    Iain Banks
    Scottish author (1954 - 2013)
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  • F. L. Lucan The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn, tired of common sense and civilization.
    F. L. Lucan
    Roman epic poet (39 - 65)
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  • Cass Sunstein The U.S. is an optimistic nation. No candidate has ever won the American presidency by speaking primarily to people's deepest fears and by manufacturing a sense of apocalypse - that our leaders 'can't do anything right,' that things are utterly falling apart.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, divine.
    The Practice of Psychotherapy (1953) p. 364
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Samuel Butler The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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