Quotes About Sense

Heroines in dramas, Bridget felt, really ought to have more sense.

Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It's just too bad.

She could remember it all but none of it seemed to come to anything. She had a sense the dream had ended and she had slept on.

Some years passed, but I still did not lose that sense of wonder about New York. I began to cherish the loneliness of it, the sense that at any given time no one need know where I was or what I was doing.

There, a meeting with John Ford, one of the several directors who were to sense that into this perfect mold might be poured the inarticulate longings of a nation wondering at just what pass the trail had been lost.

You can't be nervous and amused at the same time. They're both powerful emotions and one overrides the other. If your sense of humor kicks in, you lose your case of nerves…at least according to the professor who taught the psychology class I took in college.

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Sense for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

Be ni...rds of advice on no pretense, For the worst avarice is that of sense.

Children who are accustomed to being treated well internalize that treatment and have a permanent sense of well-being. But children whose every need is instantly gratified and who are constantly praised to the skies do not have the same sense of well-being; rather they may feel despair or rage when that gratification is withheld, or when everyone doesn't glorify them in the same way.

It is one thing to debate whether a particular disaster is God's judgment, in what sense it is God's judgment, or whether God's judgment is its main reason, but to rule it out in principle is pure prejudice.

acredito que frequentemente o que sentimos ou o que pressentimos instintivamente torna-se claro e certo quando somos guiados por alguns textos que tenham um real sentido prático.

Do Englishmen like intellectual women?' she asked. 'Not if they have any sense, but they have such a high measure of tolerance that it's likely they endure such women out of sheer gallantry. It would be like kissing a Roget's Thesaurus!

Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood…. Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books.

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.

I've learned over the years that identity has a whole lot less to do with location or other people's expectations than with your own sense of self and self-confidence.

When people have an inner sense of confidence, they're more beautiful.

Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour.

The sense of death is most in apprehension.