Quotes with sense

Quotes 641 till 660 of 696.

  • Anna Jameson What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.
    Anna Jameson
    Anglo-Irish art historian (1794 - 1860)
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  • Barry Diller What we need to do is replace the entire tax code. I do not think it makes sense to say, 'Let's just grab money from, quote, the wealthy'... The issue is the tax code's rotten and we should start truly over with a simple code that is fair and transparent.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Mrs. Jamieson What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one frame of mind and for the moment realizes itself.
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  • Anna Jameson What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.
    Anna Jameson
    Anglo-Irish art historian (1794 - 1860)
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  • John Buchan What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.
    John Buchan
    Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist (1875 - 1940)
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  • Cass Sunstein What's disgusting about genetic modification of food? I speculate that many people have an immediate, intuitive sense that what's healthy is what's 'natural,' and that efforts to tamper with nature will inevitably unleash serious risks - so-called Frankenfoods. The problem with that speculation is that it's flat-out wrong.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Bryce Courtenay What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Bobby Jindal When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Billy Joel When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Ted Danson When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
    Ted Danson
    American actor, author and producer (1947 - )
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  • Bruce Schneier When people are scared, they need something done that will make them feel safe, even if it doesn't truly make them safer. Politicians naturally want to do something in response to crisis, even if that something doesn't make any sense. But unfortunately for politicians, the security measures that work are largely invisible.
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • Bruno Tonioli When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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  • Bhagavad Gita When the senses contact sense objects, a person experiences cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting they come and go. Bear them patiently.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich When the Somalians were merely another hungry third world people, we sent them guns. Now that they are falling down dead from starvation, we send them troops. Some may see in this a tidy metaphor for the entire relationship between north and south. But it would make a whole lot more sense nutritionally - as well as providing infinitely more vivid viewing - if the Somalians could be persuaded to eat the troops.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Andrew Cohen When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Bob Shacochis When you meet powerful men or just read about them in the newspapers, you see that they don't have a sense of boundaries.
    Bob Shacochis
    American writer (1951 - )
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  • Bhagavad Gita When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don't really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it's not fair that others aren't doing exactly what you're doing. I do have that.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bob Menendez While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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