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Quotes About Sense

In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.
~ Andrew Weil
No. I'm a witcher! When they were teaching me, I swore I would act against Evil. Always. And without thinkin...' 'Because when you start thinking,' she added hollowly, 'killing stops making sense. Revenge stops making sense.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Love mocks good sense. That's its charm and beauty.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Does everything have to make sense? It's Beltane.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Is there still good sense in the world? Or do only contemptibility and contempt remain?
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Widz? przesz?o?? wyra?niej ni? tera?niejszo??. Przecie? to, co jest nabiera sensu dopiero, gdy minie.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
But David felt something else as well. A tension. A hesitation. Something wasn't exactly right about all of this. But that inner hesitation made no sense in light of the circumstances in which he and his loyal men found themselves.
~ Andy Stanley
Everything had to be in order for you, everything had to make sense. I hope you've learned that some things don't make sense, no matter how hard you try to make sense of them.
~ Angela Benson
All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.
~ Angelina Jolie
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~ Angus Stevenson
Then the auctioneer introduced himself [,,,,]. He started to speak into the microphone, a maddening, jammed-up sequence of words that crashed like bumper cars, after which everything sorted itself into some kind of sense again, and after the fact you could understand most of what he'd said.
~ Ann Beattie
Oh, a sense of humour,' Vera said. 'I do like a sense of humour in a villain.
~ Ann Cleeves
Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.
~ Diane Abbott
And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion - of becoming a global communion. So that's why I pointed to New Westminster in Canada, to incidents in the United States, and Sydney itself.
~ George Carey
Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?
~ Rod Blagojevich
Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.
~ Joseph Brodsky
I think the whole issue of a debt ceiling makes no sense to me whatsoever. Anybody who is remotely adroit at arithmetic doesn't need a debt ceiling to tell you where you are.
~ Alan Greenspan
I trust people to be human. Sometimes you do things that make amazing amounts of sense; sometimes you do things that don't make any sense whatsoever.
~ Lupe Fiasco
Men are, on the whole, born without any fashion sense whatsoever. I don't say this to be mean, but I'm just being honest.
~ Claudia Winkleman
When in doubt, make no sense. No sense is good. And nonsense is good.
~ Genesis P-Orridge
We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless waste, and communism, or the system of neighbourly common sense.
~ William Morris
Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.
~ Matt Cameron
Private schools do confer other advantages, of course: whether it be networks, or a sense of confidence that can shade into a poisonous sense of social superiority.
~ Owen Jones
Being a director, whether you're in rehearsal or you're in auditions or you're in a creative meeting, is so much to me about being present in the moment. There's a sense of time stopping.
~ Diane Paulus