Sense Quotes

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

I think it makes a lot of sense and of course I love Christie Clark. I think she's awesome; she's beautiful and fun to work with. I think she has some really unique qualities to her that would bring a lot to the show.

My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop.

My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's very sad.

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Common sense often makes good law.

My sense is that the majority of Conservatives share my reservations about how we got into Iraq.

There is always a delightful sense of movement, vibration and life.

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

For my children, it makes sense to talk about modernizing Social Security, letting them create stronger personal accounts, letting them get a higher rate of return over the long run.

When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.

It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.

The 'cash for clunkers' program was a big success in part because it gave people the sense that the economy was moving.

The greatest gift is our own eyes, sense of smell, and abilities to deduce.

Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!

I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not quite sure. It's the same in - I'm trying to think of other directors with a similar sense - David Lynch's films, Tim's films, some of Cronenberg's stuff.

Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.

I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.

Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

I've been acting for a long time now, but as narcissistic as this sounds - and I don't mean it to sound - every time I see my name up there, there is real sense of pride.

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House.

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.