Quotes About Sensibility

Was he so ignorant of human nature as not to know that a comfortable bank balance and an appreciation of good food and tobacco and well-cut clothes and jewels can go perfectly well in practice, in normal beings, with the keenest sensibility to the spiritualities of art?

All you boys seem to think about is the things you can see and touch—that ain't living. It's the things you can feel inside of you—that's what living is made for.

Being a great horseman does not rely on physical strength but more on the mind and sensibility.

We do need to have a little bit more protection and sensibility around pensioners. They are remarkable. They gave so much. We need to make sure we do our best by them.

He brought a sensibility and a hard-edged reasonableness to operating restaurants that had a lasting impact on me and still affects how I run all our restaurants today. The passing of 'Restaurant Man' - the original gangsta 'Restaurant Man,' my father - was the passing of an era. No one can replace him.

It's true that I have a strong social sensibility, because - bah, because I raised thre children on my own, and I know the difficulties that can represent. All of that makes it appear that there's a difference between Jean-Marie Le Pen's program and mine. But the big ideas are the same.

If I could change one thing about myself I'd be less highly strung. I find my sensibility quite high maintenance.

I have a lot of respect for people, and I feel they are far more sensible and responsible than to ape or imitate somebody.

I think women are inclined to look at things with more purpose because of our sensibility. We want things to connect and come together.

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

There is a deep-seated reason why intelligent, sensible people suddenly recoil from objective evidence when the topic turns to evolution. I think the fear of death has a lot to do with it.

'Black Swan' does what Hollywood movies have always done - it spends its energies on getting some surface things right while getting everything important wrong. Darren Aronofsky, the director, applies the same techniques and the same sensibility here as he did with 'The Wrestler,' only with a prettier protagonist.

Possibly because I earn my living as a writer of fiction and possibly because it's just the sensible thing to do, I like to pay attention to everything I come across, including things that evoke the uncanny or the mysterious.

Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude is part of a writer's sensibility.

I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project.

I think the way Win Butler writes, I really identify with it. He writes very emotionally and very cinematically, and I just connect with his sensibility.

Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.

It is true that I am endowed with an absurd sensitiveness, what scratches others tears me to pieces.

His heart was flooded with immense love, and as he gazed on her he could feel his mind growing numb.

All that people have found fault with as exaggerated in fiction you have made me feel.

Perciò rinunciava al flauto, ai sentimenti esaltati, all'immaginazione; poiché ogni borghese, nel calore della gioventù, almeno per un giorno, per un minuto, si è sentito capace d'immense passioni, di grandi imprese. Il più mediocre dei libertini ha sognato sultane; ogni notaio porta in sé i relitti di un poeta.

In the main, it counsels yielding to celibacy, which is exactly as sensible as advising a dog to forget its fleas.

No, the seventies was a totally different sensibility and that allowed us to break new ground as a cop show.

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, it means then that if you have a prophetic sensibility, you are committed to loving others and if you love others, you hate injustice.