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Quotes About Sense

One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
~ Edward Albee
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
~ Ellis Peters
In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility displayed by historians either in Europe or America.
~ James Henry Breasted
To qualify as a recession, economic activity must decline in an absolute sense; a mere slowdown in real growth is not enough.
~ Edgar Fiedler
I do think there is continuing sense in people buying recipe books from somebody they trust.
~ Rick Stein
The main thing that those two albums have in common aside from my music, which of course, a sense of it, you can recognize, it is that the bass on Infinite Search was playing much, much less like a bass.
~ Miroslav Vitous
Ice your arm, after a start, pitchers will put the ice bag on their elbow and their shoulder. Makes no sense. It makes a lot more sense to do isometric activity, movement based recovery than to just put your arm in ice.
~ Trevor Bauer
I am sure that I don't want to take up stupid roles. And by stupid, I refer to those which doesn't have any sense. A role should have some life in it, right?
~ Aishwarya Rajesh
At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need to cultivate a deeply refined introspective sense, and build our relationship to learning around our nuance of character.
~ Joshua Waitzkin
I have experienced heartbreak but not in a classical sense.
~ Timothee Chalamet
Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.
~ James J. Gibson
My dad is and was very funny and had a really dry sense of humor, which, as a kid, seemed un-fun. But in retrospect, it's kind of hilarious.
~ John Mulaney
Religion is nothing if it be not the deepest common-sense.
~ George MacDonald
He walked as in a twilight of the sense, Which this one day shall turn to tender light.
~ George MacDonald
good common heavenly sense to my people
~ George MacDonald
He found the original sheet of paper and scored the couplet out with thick lines. And in doing this there was a sense of achievement, of time not wasted, as though the destruction of much labour were in some way an act of creation.
~ George Orwell
The heresy of heresies was common sense. And
~ George Orwell
The heresy of heresies was common sense.
~ George Orwell
So we have the dilemma put to us, What to do, when his power must continue two years longer and when the existence of our country may be endangered before he can be replaced by a man of sense. How hard, in order to save the country, to sustain a man who is incompetent.
~ George Saunders
So we have the dilemma put to us, What to do, when his power must continue two years longer and when the existence of our country may be endangered before he can be replaced by a man of sense. How hard, in order to save the country, to sustain a man who is incompetent. In "Lincoln Reconsidered," by David Herbert Donald, letter from George Bancroft to Francis Lieber.
~ George Saunders
I believe the matter of music to be central to that of the meanings of man, of man's access to or abstention from metaphysical experience. Our capacities to compose and to respond to musical form and sense directly implicate the mystery of the human condition. To ask 'what is music?' may well be one way of asking 'what is man?
~ George Steiner
Recollect that we have been acquainted for less than a month! You cannot, cousin, have fallen - formed an attachment in so short a time!' 'Nay, love, don't be so daft!' he expostulated. 'There's no sense in saying I can't do what I *have* done!
~ Georgette Heyer
But I fancy I rather more sense than you give me credit for and also my dear I know you a trifle better than you do yourself. You will tell me that I am impertinent but so it is, little though you may think it.
~ Georgette Heyer
Our workers, our American people who are already struggling, are going to continue to struggle until we can get somebody who can bring some business sense to Washington D.C., and I think that is the one thing I bring.
~ Bobby Schilling