Quotes About Sensibility

The more a person is real, the more he is sensible with lesser number of friends and often hardly; The more a person is material, the more he is fool with larger number of fake people in his close circle and false friends mostly.

The sensibility of a celebrity is to keep own child away from the media glare and all sort of own public activity.

He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

I'm a fan of the sensibility of comics, and I love the escapism of them and the defining of good and evil. They're just so creative, too.

To the extent that human spirits are made gentle by the social state, sensibility increases; as it increases, the severity of punishment must diminish if one wishes to maintain a constant relation between object and feeling.

When doing family entertainment, you don't actually worry about kids. You know what you can't do. But in terms of sensibility and sophistication and wit and ambition, aim for your own taste level, and kids will - if they're interested in the subject matter - be glad that you did.

A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

I'm no prude. I like a witty innuendo, too.

Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power. Originally articulated on behalf of black women, the term brought to light the invisibility of many constituents within groups that claim them as members but often fail to represent them.

Nada de filosofías, nada de finalidades trascendentes, ni de abstracciones sensibilizadas, humanizadas y universalizadas. Eso, estoy seguro, hiere vuestros tímpanos delicados hechos para la música y el amor.

Questioner: One question comes to my mind: if everybody looked inward, what would happen? Sadhguru: You would have a sensible world. (Laughs) Is that a danger?

The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.

The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility.

Es tonto desear la belleza. Las personas sensatas nunca la desean para sí ni le dan importancia en los demás. Si la mente está bien cultivada y el corazón bien dispuesto, a nadie le importa el exterior. Eso decían los profesores de nuestra infancia, y eso decimos nosotros a los niños de hoy. Todo muy juicioso y correcto, sin duda, pero ¿la experiencia apoya tales afirmaciones?

It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior. So said the teachers of our childhood; and so say we to the children of the present day. All very judicious and proper, no doubt; but are such assertions supported by actual experience?

It is foolish to which for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves, or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior. So said the teachers of our childhood; and so say we to the children of the present day, all very judicious and proper, no doubt; but such assertions supported by actual experience?

Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of humankind get recycled back and forth across the universe. But what you have to offer is your own sensibility, maybe your own sense of humor or insider pathos or meaning. All of us can sing the same song, and there will still be four billion different renditions.

see nothing attractive in behaving like a fool when you don't have to.

Carefully I opened my eyes and looked at him again. All his natural gifts were there in a blaze of light: the delicate but strong limbs, large sober brown eyes, and his mouth that for all the irony and sarcasm that could come out of it was childlike and ready to be kissed.

It's quite extraordinary how, from sheer vexation, you find yourself longing for even some passing commoner to have the sensibility to appreciate the scene, and later spread the word.

One of the talents of the [late] great Steve Jobs is that he [knew] how to design Medusa-like products. While every Macintosh model has had flaws (some more than others), most of them have has a sexiness and a design sensibility that has turned many consumers into instant converts. Macintosh owners upgrade far more often than most computer users for precisely this reason." (p.98)

Never laughing too loudly in a restaurant no matter how good the joke.