Quotes About Sense

The good news doesn't make any sense unless you know what the bad news is first, and the bad news goes pretty deep.

It's my red hair that interferes with my good sense. All that color so close to my brain, it plum disorients me most days.

A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.

Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason.

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.

Muslims want the western countries to apologize. Why? because this gives them a sense of empowerment. It makes them feel good about themselves, it stokes their ego.

Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead." "Or she's a woman of good taste and sense.

One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.

My brief flash of relief and confidence melted away. Good thing it did, too. I'm sure the world would come to an end if I were allowed to feel a sense of relief and well-being for any length of time.

Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.

In public administration good sense would seem to require that public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize eventual disappointment.

So, yeah, I think it had a major effect. I think in franchising younger people, it was just an idea that's never been trotted out before, but it makes perfectly good sense.

One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art - and this sense is doubtless the horror of the bourgeois.

That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with laughter

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

Education is not something that the government invests in. Because if you invest in education, no politician can come and tell you something that doesn't make sense.

When the sense of justice seeks to express itself quite outside the regular channels of established government, it has set forth on a dangerous journey inevitably ending in disaster.

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.