Quotes About Sense

SOON, he replied, which makes better sense under the rules of that country than ours. VERY SOON! he added, clasping my hands; then, unable to keep from laughing, he pushed off from the rock like a boy going for the first cold swim of spring; and the current got him. The stream was singing aloud, and I heard him singing with it until he dropped away over the edge.

You needed only pliers and a crescent wrench and the sense of a common farm duck, "all of which," Rune said, "my uncle possessed.

Altering the course of how your brain makes sense of things is a way of short-circuiting the cycle that leads to an unwanted emotion. Psychologists call that guided thinking "reappraisal.

Later studies showed that a prior sense of helplessness and lack of control is linked to both stress and the onset of disease.

On ignorance depends karma; on karma depends consciousness; on consciousness depend name and form; on name and form depend the five organs of sense; on the five organs of sense depends contact; on contact depends sensation; on sensation depends desire; on desire depends clutching; on clutching depends existence; on existence depends birth; on birth depend old age and death, sorrow, lamentation, misery, grief and despair. —The Buddha's twelvefold concatenation of cause and effect

No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation

It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

E então a duquesa disse: A moral disso é, tome conta do sentido e os sons tomarão conta de si mesmos.

and the moral ofthat is —"Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.

Si no tiene sentido", dijo el Rey, "eso nos salva de un montón de problemas, sabes, porque no hace falta que le busquemos uno.

You may charge me with murder - Or want of sense (We are all of us weak at times): But the slightest approach to a false pretence Was never among my crimes!

Su cara refleja algo de sentido común, ¡Aunque no es una niña demasiado lista!. Sin embargo, tienes un bonito color, y eso siempre ayuda.

De eso me quejo! ¡Es que deberías haber dicho lo que querías! ¿De qué sirve una niña que habla sin sentido? Incluso los chistes deben tener un sentido y los niños son más importantes que los chistes, espero.

Algunas personas ¡Tienen menos sentido común que un bebé!

Kate." "Thank you for saying that." He grimaces. "I don't know if this makes sense, but there are times when I can't remember their faces or the sound of their voices. That scares me because there

Minor detail. I'm going to kiss you, Marlie—" "I'll bite you again," she swiftly warned. He shrugged. "I always have had more guts than sense," he said, and very gently brushed her mouth with his.

I had no idea whether Faustus enjoyed gossip. If not, I could teach him. All you need is curiosity and a sense of humor. He had those.

It is the wide sense of the word that is nowadays forced upon us, for clearly it is no longer possible to think of politics except as the politics of culture, the organization of human life toward some end or other, toward the modification of sentiments, which is to say the quality of human life.

Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property.

Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.

Spirituality is indeed the master-key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.

In the highest sense the Bible is to us the unique repository of eternal spiritual truths.

For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter.