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Quotes About Sense

I'd love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well.
~ Hugh Bonneville
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
~ e. e. cummings
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
~ Marianne Williamson
I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.
~ Antonio Banderas
This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love.
~ Leonard Cohen
whether you have training or not, the way to make your look make sense is to surround yourself with the things you love.
~ Jonathan Adler
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
~ William Penn
I love Canada...It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.
~ Yann Martel
I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.
~ Judd Nelson
I know of one semibarbarous zone whose librarians repudiate the "vain and superstitious habit" of trying to find sense in books, equating such a quest with attempting to find meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines on the palms of one's hand.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
all the blood that has been wasted—all of it—gathers into deep coherent veins in the earth and calls itself history—& we make it make sense— & we are asked to call it good.
~ Jorie Graham
This imbecile sentimentality, combined with a ferociously practical sense, represented the dominant motive of the age.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
There is beauty everywhere on earth, but there is greater beauty in those places where one feels that sense of ease which comes from no longer having to put off one's dreams until some improbable future – a future inexorably shrinking away; where the fear that has pervaded one's life suddenly vanishes because there is... nothing to be afraid of.
~ Josef Å kvorecký
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
~ Joseph Addison
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
~ Joseph Addison
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.
~ Joseph Addison
The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.
~ Joseph L. Mankiewicz
He had a habit of remarking to bartenders that he didn't see any sense in mixing whiskey with water since the whiskey was already wet.
~ Joseph Mitchell
Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness…. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
~ Joseph N. Welch
More sense than a kit?" Stormfur took another step forward until he stood right on the border. "That must make you so proud. You're really fierce warriors, I can see that.
~ Erin Hunter
This indicates how far the law has become dubious. People have a sense of being under foreign occupation, and in this relation the criminal appears a kindred soul.
~ Ernst Junger
I suppose there musst have been a deep love between him and his father, a love I could get no sense for because of its reticence. But as with most loves, it was shadowy, and painful, and confusing, and Titch seemed to me overly eager and too often hurt.
~ Esi Edugyan
The quality of your life ultimately depends on the quality of your relationships . . . which are basically a reflection of your sense of decency, your ability to think of others, your generosity.
~ Esther Perel
Beauty, it's an inner sense, and it makes us happy. It's not complicated, we need it.
~ Etel Adnan