Quotes About Sense

But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society.

Diamonds are a girl's best friend and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense.

All that is left to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.

Pleasure and pain are the great objects of desire and aversion: but these are distinguished not by reason, but by immediate sense and feeling. If virtue, therefore, be desirable for its own sake, and if vice be, in the same manner, the object of aversion, it cannot be reason which originally distinguishes those different qualities, but immediate sense and feeling.

Let there be less suffering . . . give us the sense to live on what we need.

Beauty, then, is a fragment of the divine, and the sight of it saddens us by evoking our sense of loss and our yearning for the life denied us.

In roadside diners and late-night cafeterias, hotel lobbies and station cafés, we may dilute our feeling of isolation in a lonely public place and hence rediscover a distinctive sense of community.

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

Not the Force, but a more ancient, more highly developed sense in man half convinced him they were being watched.

And something else came back, from that later first morning at Kensington Park Gardens: a sense that the house was not only an enhancement of Toby's interest but a compensation for his lack of it.

A Presbyterian minister recently said to me that science and religion share a sense of wonder. I agree.

Many things we misread as meaningful are quite ordinary coincidences. For example, its not unlikely that occasionally someone will phone you after youve been thinking about them. But we give these things value to make sense of our lives.

Religious or secular, all myths make profound sense to one group of people. Not to everyone. They cannot be rationalized beyond a point. In the final analysis, you either accept them or you don't.

Never ever make a joke to the police, they have no sense of humour. Never make a political joke, it will always be considered an insult. Always remember that umbrage can be taken by the lift of an eyebrow. Remember that if offence can possibly be taken, it will be.

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.

But faith, as we pointed out, is not primarily the acceptance of biblical beliefs because they have been revealed outside of and overriding human reason and good sense, and so in that sense are imposed on us without proper understanding.

Gödel's incompleteness theorems brought the second ending of the Grundlagenstreit. Where Hilbert had won the conflict in the social sense, he had lost it in the scientific sense.

Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Now I feel I have your family's troubles on my head, whether you believe that or not. I seem to have this inbred sense of responsibility in certain things, and once I feel I am responsible, I do not rest until the matter is resolved.

It only makes sense, he thinks, that people whose only loyalty is to money would find each other. Shit seeks its own level.

God is life; and in that life which is God there are no years. ... The human sense of life is not your real life.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.