Quotes About Sense

What we require is obedience—the strength to stand and the willingness to leap, and the sense to know when to do which. Which is exactly what we get when an accurate memory of God's ways is combined with a lively hope in his promises.

Wonder is the sense, which comes in a flash but won't go away, that things are not as straightforward as they seem, that the ordinary way, or explanation and argument leaves you with unbearable contradictions and impossibilities.

No." She waited, holding back with an innate sense of drama while they floundered hopelessly among lesser materials and commonplace outfits.

Voters, like history, are under no obligation to make sense.

The organism's environment is the sense it makes of the world. This environment is a place of significance and valence, as a result of the global action of the organism.

I left the world of jail with plenty of relief but, more than anything, with a sense of unease that I still can't quite shake.

I think subconsciously people are remarkably discerning. I think that they can sense care.

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.

I'm drawn to people who share that sense of loss. All actors are trying to repair damaged relationships. I think that might be why I've been drawn to other actors.

I've got a great sense of humor, and if I'm able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that's hugely flattering.

Now, to anyone with even half a brain, a newspaper apologizing because a reporter did some reporting makes about as much sense as a doctor apologizing because he gave someone a diagnosis.

There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.

When I was reporting crime... I never had the sense of clockwork conspiracies or some kind of imposing order of evil. What I sensed was things just sort of falling apart.

But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton; that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner.

A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.

I feel like I don't really have a sense of humor... I don't know if I could characterize it dark or light. I just - I do like humor.

We have an immigration system in this country that not only doesn't work, in many cases it doesn't even make any sense.

Immigration customs enforcement is a role that makes sense. We have to have something that is doing that.

In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.

We excuse movies like 'Independence Day' that really lack logic and say, 'It doesn't make any sense, but it's a ride.' I thought a movie was a movie and a ride was a ride.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

To suppose sense in the world would be gross and unwarranted. But locomotive faculties are evident in all its parts.

There is a restless endeavour in the mind of man after Happiness. This appetite is wrought into the original frame of our nature, and exerts itself in all parts of the creation that are endued with any degree of thought or sense. But, as the human mind is dignified by a more comprehensive faculty than can be found in the inferior animals, it is natural for men not only to have an eye each to his own happiness, but also to endeavour to promote that of others.