Sense Quotes

Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

When your entire brain is active, that means you are taking everything in through all sense perception. Your entire memory bank and your instincts are in play, so you make much quicker and more intelligent choices.

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

All those zany comedies have instilled a sense of pace in me.

Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.

After all it was my father who founded the Burmese army and I do have a sense of warmth towards the Burmese army.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.

Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.

When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.

And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.

Then I think the sense of it being one community breaks down; but if you know instantly and respond within twenty-four hours, it's a very different sort of situation.

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

My legacy would be that you don't have to give up anything. You can be chic but have a sense of humor, you can be sexy but comfortable, you can be timeless but fresh.

When I think about the real pioneers of the psychedelic movement in a musical sense, not just the culture, everything had a handmade sort of vibe to it. We're inventing our culture as we move along into this.

I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.