Quotes About Sense

They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

It is entirely possible that you will feel attachment to or aversion for certain sense objects. Give that up. When you feel attachment towards something attractive or aversion towards something repulsive, understand that to be your mind's delusion, nothing but a magical illusion.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." —ALBERT EINSTEIN, GERMAN

Of this he was certain: to be in her presence was to know delight in a more vivid sense than ever he had before.

In the meantime, thank you for existing. At least I have one relation (other than Aunt Elizabeth) with some sense. I find it a great comfort.

You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

Of course it doesn't make sense." Lady Wendall said. "The rules of society rarely do.

I'm not sure sheep are known for their good sense," he said. "Beatrice is unusual," I said. The goslings saw Mama and ran over. "Madeleine, I believe you're going to be the largest of the three of you," said Mama. "And you, Margaret Louise, will always be the runt." "Small and lovely, you mean," said Grandfather.

Sometimes fear and confusion can blunt your perceptions. You become so driven to make sense of things, to identify the dangers lurking around the next corner, that you neglect to see the wonders all around you.

I just want the world to make sense now and then, is that so wrong?

In my defense, I could have dispensed with the truth entirely and told a much better story. Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense. Losi

Entonces de repente –éste era el sentido del ejercicio-, el odio brotaba en él con violencia de orgasmo, estallando como una tormenta contra aquellos olores que habían osado ofender su ilustre nariz. Caía sobre ellos como granizo sobre un campo de trigo, los pulverizaba como una furioso huracán y los ahogaba bajo un diluvio purificador de agua destilada. Tan justa era su cólera y tan grande su venganza.

I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.

My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of imagination.

Nevertheless, this is where it begins. The first word appears only at a moment when nothing can be explained anymore, at some instant of experience that defies all sense. To be reduced to saying nothing. Or else, to say himself: this is what haunts me. And then to realize, almost in the same breath, that this is what he haunts.

Orioles fought with tigers, blue jays battled against angels, bear cubs warred with giants, and none of it made any sense. A baseball player was a man, and yet once he joined a team he was turned into an animal, a mutant being, or a spirit who lived in heaven next to God. According

anyone with a sense of humor is a likely candidate for the defense.

Your friend has an odd sense of color combinations." "The house belongs to an ex-cop," I said, as if that explained it.

History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn't make sense. Stories make things make sense, but the way they do that is to leave out anything that doesn't fit. And often that is quite a lot.

For one thing, the victim role provides a sense of security by eliminating the need to change. It eliminates the need to even try.

I have cats because they have no artificially imposed, culturally prescribed sense of decorum. They live in the moment. If I had an aneurysm in the brain, and dropped dead, I love knowing that as the paramedics carry me out, my cats are going to be swatting at that little toe tag.

Mind you, Thunder Bay has a lot of outskirts. It's actually two cities melded together, so in a sense it has twice as many outskirts as other places. It's understandable that we got lost....

He realised that comfortable surroundings, indeed the gilded surroundings of his own life until then, and all the things that went with that, don't tend to produce happiness or fulfilment without some sense of love to go with them.

In later months, Davies thought about the manifesto. There were gaps in it, bits that didn't make sense, and he wondered if David knew that and decided it didn't matter. Later still he realized what David had been doing: "He'd read about Elvis, and he'd read about Hollywood in the thirties and forties, and he was building a brand—before that language had even been invented.