Quotes About Sense

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. –Harold Kushner

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

One truth that emerges from understanding consciousness in this way is that it makes little sense to assume that individual consciousness evolved first, or that it is the most fundamental form of consciousness.

Can't talk sense into Yankees, and can't knock it into them, either!" Daniel complained. "I'm going to knock some into you, little brother, when this is over," Jesse warned him.

I felt a deep sense of knowingness that the process of sharing this book was important somehow, perhaps for reasons I will never know.

I had to remember about open, blind, knowing, unreserved, unambiguous, unconditional love—naked love—before any of it could make sense again. I had to find it the many places it hid, drag it out in the open and wrap it all around me,

Instead of vacillating, we need to value, acknowledge and trust our intuition for what it is, a sense of truth.

If you don't hear this kind of music [pop] at the right time, can it ever make sense to you?

Yet how ordinary so many strange things turn out to be, like dreams that end up disappointing us by making sense.

Always, even on a solemn occasion like this, an undercurrent of laughter in her voice. She possessed a keen sense of the fundamental absurdity of life.

Symbolically, emerald brings a sense of clarity, renewal, and rejuvenation, which is so important in today's complex world.

Nonsense is the new sense. To truly understand the world we are in today, you have to be a writer, or an actor, or a lunatic.

The Big Jump had been made. Man had finally reached the stars, and every clerk and shopgirl, every housewife, busisnessman, and bum felt a personal hysteria of pride and achievement. They swayed in dense masses across Times Square feeling big with a sense of history, sensing the opening drumbeats of an epoch in what they saw and heard from the huge news-service screens.

There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.

Everything. A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may be coded, and there are times when it seems the entire world is in code. Some believe that the world can be decoded by performing research in a library. Others believe that the world can be decoded by reading a newspaper. In my case, the only thing that made sense of the world was you, and without you the world will seem as garbled and tragic as a malfunctioning typewrit9.

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret . . . to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup. Portmanteau days, imploded years. Like a bad actor, memory always goes for effect, abjuring motivation, consistency, good sense.

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

Sense will always have attractions for me.

There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion.

Love which did not build a foundation on good sense was doomed.