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Quotes About Sense

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.
~ August Wilson
I love 'Dexter.' The dark sense of humor is wonderful.
~ Stephen J. Cannell
Love makes no sense at all. But it's the most powerful and amazing force in the entire universe.
~ Glenn Close
The heart is stubborn. It holds onto love despite what sense and emotion tells it. And it is often, in the battle of those three, the most brilliant of all.
~ Alessandra Torre
She was a music I no longer heard, that rang in my mind, itself and nothing else, lost to all sense, but not perished, not perished.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.
~ Miranda July
You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. Yes. Do they ever make more sense? No.
~ Mitch Albom
A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quickly than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.
~ Moss Hart
I mused as I drove homeward: take the hint And stop investigating my abyss? But all at once it dawned on me that this Was the real point, the contrapuntal theme; Just this: not text, but texture; not the dream But topsy-turvical coincidence, Not flimsy nonsense, but a web of sense. Yes! It sufficed that I in life could find Some kind of link and bobolink, some kind Or correlated pattern in the game, Plexed artistry, and something of the same Pleasure in it as they who played it found.
~ Nabokov V.
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
~ Nadine Gordimer
Jij voelt alsof het gaat regenen. - Aadhya
~ Naomi Novik
No le dé vergüenza tener miedo. Tener miedo es señal de sentido común. Los únicos que no tienen miedo de nada son los tontos de remate.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Julián spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Are you saying there's a fourth suspect?" I asked. "Someone we don't even know about?" Ashley doodled on the top of her note page. "It doesn't make sense." "Great-Grandma Olive would say that's why it's a mystery," I pointed out.
~ Carol Ellis
I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
~ Carson McCullers
Glegg: But do you intend to be dead? Worsely: I try to. My doctor says I'm so safety prone I must have a lifewish. I have a sense of humour about psychiatrists.
~ Caryl Churchill
do not be misled by expert bravado or by an expert's own sense of how he or she is doing. Evidence is a much better guide than an impressive self-presentation.
~ Cass R. Sunstein
I don't know who explained this rule to me; maybe it was the product of my own speculations and fantasies. That would have been typical: I was always inventing stories and machinations to make sense of things I didn't understand, and I understood almost nothing.
~ César Aira
The BJP lacks the sense of history.
~ Amarinder Singh
Meeting with people is awesome in every sense of the word. It can inspire you with glee. It can inspire you with happiness. It can inspire you with sadness and melancholy, but also hope.
~ Emma Gonzalez
I am willing to run anywhere that the Green Party and our membership thinks it makes sense for me to run.
~ Annamie Paul
It's hard enough for most restaurants to create and present a single menu that makes sense to the diner, let alone two.
~ Melissa Leong
Cleaning up the mess in Washington is gonna take a whole lot of Iowa common sense.
~ Joni Ernst
We need music that makes complete sense to us, and that's how 'Mess' came about.
~ Jordan Fisher