Sense Quotes

It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be available to all women, regardless of what health plan they have or where they work - as Congress intended. Providing access to birth control just makes good sense.

In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.

But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.

I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do.

My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility.

It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.

Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.

Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world.

But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.

My sense is, as governor I've gotten a lot of stuff done.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?

There is a certain sense of loss when a series ends.

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.

I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.