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Quotes About Sense

El sentido moral de los mortales es el precio que debemos pagar por nuestro sentido mortal de la belleza.57
~ Vladimir Nabokov
El sentido moral de los mortales es el precio que debemos pagar por nuestro sentido mortal de la belleza.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
the evolution of sense, in a sense, is the evolution of non sense
~ Vladimir Nobokov
Tell all my mourners To mourn in red- Cause there ain't no sense In my bein' dead.
~ Langston Hughes
Funny how his two special abilities—taking and giving life—were so opposite, but only the "good" one came with pain. He supposed it made sense; life fucking hurt.
~ Larissa Ione
Is this some kind of joke?" "I have no sense of humor." She'd heard that about Raphael.
~ Larissa Ione
I set out to make sense of my life. And I found out that one's life, particularly after one has written about it, doesn't make sense. Life doesn't make sense.
~ Larry Kramer
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
~ larson doug
Todo tiene un sentido - replicó Christian -. Solo que a veces no encontramos las preguntas adecuadas. Pero eso no significa que esas preguntas y respuestas no existan.
~ Laura Gallego García
Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.
~ Laura Linney
Where on Maslow's hierarchy of needs does one find storytelling? Technically, he supposes, it's near the narrow top, a part of self-actualization. Yet it feels as if it's the entire foundation to Gerry, as if even the basics of water, food, and shelter rely on one's ability to make sense of the narrative of one's life.
~ Laura Lippman
People flock into churches to have the world explained to them in a neat little package. For most people, religion is chaos insurance. Religion lays down a template on the world so that people can try to make some sense of it. The problem is that people end up living in the template and shutting out reality altogether.
~ Laurence Galian
Modern man has lost the sense of wonder about the unknown and he treats it as an enemy.
~ Laurens van der Post
Why did I tell you so many stories? Because I wanted the world to make sense to you. I wanted to make sense of the world, for you. I wanted the world to make sense.
~ Celeste Ng
They dazzled her, these Richardsons: with their easy confidence, their clear sense of purpose, no matter the time of day.
~ Celeste Ng
I remember a distinct sense of restlessness in the air while I was growing up, a feeling that if you wanted an exciting or important or interesting life, you needed to escape.
~ Celeste Ng
Good sense travels on the well-worn paths genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.
~ Cesare Lombroso
Concepts and patterns that your brain is sorting through and making sense of are much more scalable and universal than any specific vendor's technology
~ Chad Fowler
It makes everyone nervous, smelling," he says re the vial, "because smell is such a strong sense.
~ Chandler Burr
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
~ Charles Baudelaire
So bleary with jet lag that she could not sleep or make any sense in conversation, and feeling that her brain was a haunted house in which bats flew randomly from one attic beam to another
~ Charles Baxter
He studied at the Bauhaus, you know." "So that makes him trustworthy? Because he's an architect?" "A modernist architect." "You've got an odd sense of trust, my love. He's still a German, and you can never trust a German. Always remember that." "Yes, my dear, I'll keep that in mind.
~ Charles Belfoure
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame to copy faults is want of sense.
~ Charles Churchill
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
~ Charles de Secondat