Sense Quotes

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.

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty.

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.

I can just sense some eyes, some people kinda stare a little bit like they recognize me but don't quite know for sure kinda thing.

Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.

We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?