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Quotes About Sensibility

At which vision, of continual middle age, the younger Miss Flowerman fainted.
~ Ronald Firbank
Los humanos nos defendemos del dolor sin sentido adornándolo con la sensatez de la belleza. Aplastamos carbones con las manos desnudas y a veces conseguimos que parezcan diamantes.
~ Rosa Montero
Hay que hacer algo con todo eso para que no nos destruya, con ese fragor de desesperación, con el inacabable desperdicio, con la furiosa pena de vivir cuando la vida es cruel. Los humanos nos defendemos del dolor sin sentido adornándolo con la sensatez de la belleza
~ Rosa Montero
All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Fools. Do they pity Kanna? But Kanna cannot feel a thing, be it pain, fear or sorrow. She cannot even understand the reason for your pity.- Naraku
~ Rumiko Takahashi
This emphasis on the situation was particularly important in order to show that what was central for Socrates was not a fixed point but an ubique et nusquam . It was needed in order to point up the Socratic sensibility which under the subtlest and weakest contact immediately discerned the presence of the Idea, immediately felt the electricity pervading the whole existence.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
severed heads,' Cosca was explaining, 'never go out of fashion. Used sparingly and with artistic, sensibility,They can make a point a great deal more eloquently then those still attached.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
~ Henry James
I want to feel my life while I'm in it.
~ Meryl Streep
Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.
~ Oscar Wilde
Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.
~ Susanne Katherina Langer
I wanted to touch him like he was a bunny, a kitten, something so special and soft your fingertips can't leave it alone. The universe was good because he was in it.
~ E. Lockhart
I can give points to a picture, I dare say,' said Maurice, having glanced at the Michelangelo. 'Clive, you're a silly little fool, and since you've brought it up I think you're beautiful, the only beautiful person I've ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
~ E.M. Forster
Passion is sanity.
~ E.M. Forster
Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more quickly we will be able to discover the sources of human sensibility and acquire the knowledge on which an enduring ethic, a sense of preferred direction, can be built.
~ E.O. Wilson
La vida es mucho más sencilla que esa lógica binaria de varitas mágicas que abren los ojos y conectan los corazones.
~ Eduardo Sacheri
I like little pussy, her coat is so warm;And if I don't hurt her she'll do me no harm.
~ Anonymous
I do think Australians as a rule have a very good sensibility to them, and I think most people, if they were given the option, wouldn't choose to rip off a filmmaker or an artist - I don't think its part of the Australian psyche.
~ John Polson
You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.
~ Matthew Modine
I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.
~ Joanna Newsom
Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.
~ Leonora Carrington
They have allowed the endless feedback loop of the Web—the never-ending flood of data—to shape their editorial sensibility, to determine their editorial investments.
~ Franklin Foer
But perhaps the enthusiastic sensibility of young women of her age also played a role. This feeling sought release at every opportunity, and with it Grete now felt tempted to want to make Gregor's situation even more terrifying, so that then she would be able to do even more for him than now.
~ Franz Kafka