Quotes About Sense

I was clever in a severely limited sense

Symbols are the things we look at because they can be a doorway into another world. We very much go by sense, feeling the way as we go, but my maxim on that occasion was: if in doubt, throw it out. Some of the books mentioned ley lines. There was another called Satanic Rites of the High Priests. These doorways had to be closed off.

After a quick breakfast I headed off for school. I don't know what it was... maybe just something in the air... but I had an incredible sense of well-being that morning. Like I was ready to take on the world. Ready, in fact... for absolutely anything.

sense is made not by coercing the facts or pumping up the rhetorical volume. Sense is made by sifting through the sand of our ignorance to find, here and there, the words and thoughts that persuade ourselves (truly) and perhaps consequently to persuade others.

What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?

In passato l'apocalisse, dal punto di vista religioso ma anche secolare, è sempre stata considerata un evento singolo improvviso, un flash accecante dal cielo, una bomba nucleare. Oggi, pensiamo al cambiamento climatico, la fine dei tempi appare più come una lenta dissoluzione. E questo fa sì che non abbiamo il paradigma mitologico per darle un senso, non sappiamo come pensarla, come darle una forma.

I sense a wisp of wistful vermouth in your happiness martini.

Our limited data force a sense of historical fragility: even as I nurture interpretation, I continually run the risk of creating it in my own image.122

Laughter is an orgasm triggered by the intercourse of sense and nonsense.

that was when life made sense. Now there's nothing but madness.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

The proper proportions of a maxim: a minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.

Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense

The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.

I think my sense of humor is really dark and super twisted and stuff like that. It's like, "Is this a funny joke for real? Or am I just rich?" See? That was funny.

I've got a wallet, it's orange. In case I wanna buy a deer. That doesn't make any sense at all.

What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won't be funny.

Most of the people in my family were pretty funny. Everyone had a good sense of humor. I came to California right after college, wanting to be a musician.

Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.