Quotes About Sense

never would I be able to revive that unfazed sense of security first fostered in a little child by a big, protective republic

For a moment we glared at each other, stubborn as cats on the stable wall, full of mutual resentment and something darker, the old sense between sisters that there is only really room in the world for one girl. The sense that every fight could be to the death.

Your brother, Mordred, has a grain of sense about prophecies. Of course they'll come true—if a man broods on them until he finds his chance to make them come true.

First, I must distinguish between that which always is and never becomes and which is apprehended by reason and reflection, and that which always becomes and never is and is conceived by opinion with the help of sense.

The sphere of sense, the Soul in its slumber; for all of the Soul that is in body is asleep and the true getting-up is not bodily but from the body: in any movement that takes the body with it there is no more than passage from sleep to sleep, from bed to bed.

Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, logic; of the third, insight.

what's the code for New Orleans? MSY? That doesn't make sense

There was an absurdity to places far, a sense of insignificant people scratching meaningless earth. Let them die, she would sometimes think, whenever she heard tidings of famine in Ainon or plague in Nilnamesh. What are these people to me? These places? A fool … that's what she had been.

One thing about me is that I have a really good sense of direction. Mom and Dad always say they don't need a map when I'm around. I almost always know when I'm heading the wrong way.

I love arguing with you, Claire. You always surprise me. And occasionally, you even make sense.

In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.

I didn't bring you here, he said. You think you're Miss Special Destiny of the year? No, I shot back, furious. And I don't damn well want to be - whatever the hell you are. But sometimes there isn't a choice. Right? Careful. You might accidentally make some sense. Ruin your reputation. You are infuriating ! Yep, he agreed. It's been said.

In an insane world, sanity made very little sense. No one expected me to live, and therefore, I did. Always.

claire:Now shane was talking sense?Wow was it opposite day?

You're always caring about strays and outcasts among us, myself included. You really are a very odd girl, you know; so little sense of what is good for you.

Porque eso era, de hecho, mi secreto. En un mundo demente, la cordura tiene muy poco sentido.

When we react with extreme emotion to some innocuous comment, the subconscious is acting out. When we get a sense of the wonder of life and can't explain it, we are touching the unconscious

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony.

The concept of a weary severed hand, exhausted from relentless creeping, made no sense.

I am learning my way toward something that will make sense of my life, and I learn by going where I have to go, with whatever companions I am graced.

From their perspective, however, torture might make a sort of cockeyed sense if it was ritualistic, part of a ceremony that this fraternity of the demented required of themselves when they murdered one of their own.

Through Arthur Willott's dream of alien contact and adventure, you found a doorway out of your despair, an escape from a crushing sense of having failed your mother and father.

I don't have visions. It was a presentiment. A feeling, an impression.