Sense Quotes

I do have a strong sense of an order in the universe.

The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.

A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.

I have so much residue crap in my hair from years and years of not washing it and not having any sense of personal hygiene whatsoever. Even today, I go into these things where I'm supposed to be this sexy guy or whatever, and I'm literally asking, 'If I get plumes of dandruff on me, can you just brush it off?'

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.

There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something.

But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society.

My life style in a sense is kind of private.

In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too.

A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

On becoming a mother, I sort of feel like every kid is my kid. I really do get that sense in a much more profound way that we all are a global community and we all have to band to try and give the children of our this generation whatever tools we can to go out into this world and try and make it a better place.

My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

We all need a firm sense of identity.