Sense Quotes

I don't have a strong sense of self-worth unless I'm doing something.

In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.

Without that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated.

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.

Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense.

Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like.

What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them.

Well, certainly 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.

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.

The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.

I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it.

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.

We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.

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

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.