Sense Quotes

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.

I have a good sense of direction.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.

Look, I worked with American Republican presidents and Democratic presidents, all of them, and each of them has shown a deep and profound friendship to Israel, you know? I can't remember anybody who was in that sense negative as far as Israel is concerned.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.

Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.

I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.

Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.

A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

Have common sense and stick to the point.

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.

Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.

The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

You have to contort your body in a certain way to hit a low note. When you're on film, you can't. So you do, in a sense, get to hide behind your voice, which is nice.

What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it.

For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.

Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.