Quotes About Sense

Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call my husband Steve, because I think he's got a real good sense of where everything's gonna be in a few years.

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.

I grew up partially around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in that part of the country, there was always this aura of mythology and palpable sense of otherness about being a Southerner.

Sanitising stories, leaching out all of the sense of danger and the darkness out of the stories, actually reduces them and stops them from doing what they're supposed to do, which is teach us how to manage our lives.

You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.

Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

I loved the idea of dramatic art of storytelling as a way to make sense of things. It's really what I love and what I care about.

All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.

Real life is generally very haphazard in its plotting, and I think a lot of people lament that, and turn to fiction to briefly experience, albeit vicariously, a more satisfying sort of reality. We want to see *sense* -- not necessarily happy endings, but effectual actions and significant outcomes. (Postmodern fiction and metafiction, I gather, aim to call attention to the falsity of these things, which is like selling liquor that perversely makes you more sober).

You can't just change your feelings, but you can change your daily habits to strengthen your sense of gratitude, which will then produce feelings of gratefulness that will reinvigorate you.

Surviving is the strongest memory I have; the sense of having walked on water.

So they believe the trend makes no sense. But what makes no sense is their model of the world. That's what doesn't make sense. The world always makes sense.

When I live out of a biblical sense of who I am (identity) and rest in who God is (worship), I will be able to build a healthy relationship with you.

object at the exact moment it achieved total success. Love always leaves the subject with a sense of its failure or incompletion, but this incompletion must be experienced as the indication of love's authenticity rather than its absence.

Until recently, she never suggested suffering any sense of exclusion.

They share the same ballbusting sense of humor, both of them from a generation that seemed to know how to do two things far better than my contemporaries: work and laugh.

That makes good sense if you're an Indy 500 racer. But you aren't. (Sorry.) You're a software project manager. The same mind-set on a software project is a disaster.

Divinity is an emotion of being lifted out of yourself and being part of something much bigger than yourself that makes you go, 'Oh my God.' And that sense of awe? It's the second rule of science.

We don't have all the time in the world with oil. We have to use oil while it makes sense to do so.

The truth is that I don't really understand the concept of having an old-fashioned sense of humour, because to me fashion is about clothes not comedy.

I shop a lot online... and just the ease of it makes a lot more sense.

It's a new world that's very, very difficult to make sense of. But we have a new hope. We have a new man. America has now elected its first openly black President.

There's a destiny for everybody. The world is set up - as foreign as that can be to some people who are very materialistic - but there is a force in this world, once we step into it, that opens doors for us, that gives us a sense of purpose and the greatest life there is, in my view.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.