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Quotes About Sense

Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney.
~ Sharon Gless
I suppose I always find a lot of characters that are deeply, deeply keening with a sense of yearning and desire through sadness, but they have a bravery that keeps them going despite that.
~ Marianne Elliott
In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.
~ Emma Goldman
I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing.
~ Tina Fey
I'm a traditional wife in every sense.
~ Monica
Billy Martin was a human tragedy, in the real sense of the words.
~ Reggie Jackson
People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.
~ Corey Stoll
There is a palpable sense of history in the homes that I choose to occupy. I think that's one of the reasons I gravitate towards old homes: I really like that sense of history and that sense that I am one step in a very long process that trails out in both directions around me - before me and ahead of me.
~ David Lowery
I'm a reporter by nature and training. I like things that make sense.
~ Carole Radziwill
I think what medical training does is it gives you the language, the tools to look up facts. I think medical training gives you a sense of how to approach a problem, how to look at symptoms and go down the list of what it might be.
~ Tess Gerritsen
Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.
~ Mariel Hemingway
The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance. It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense - the home sense - which operates unerringly.
~ John Burroughs
We know the seductive alchemy of art. To transform private anguish into a narrative of truth, if not beauty; to make sense where there was none; to bring order out of chaos - these are the promises art makes.
~ Kathryn Harrison
Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'.
~ Linus Torvalds
I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
~ Socrates
Only in his dreams had he encountered this sensation before: the doom-laden knowledge that one is trapped in a predicament that makes no sense and will never make sense, no matter what one does.
~ Sophie Hannah
Who can know the absolute truth of illusion or emptiness? That is why we feel the fulfilled sense of this world.
~ Sorin Cerin
What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it out of His being.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Now, my evil sense of alienation is eliminated, since I have heard the Praises of the Lord with my ears.
~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib
So the Church imitates the Lords mother - not in the bodily sense, which it could not do - but in mind it is both mother and virgin. In no way, then, did Christ deprive his mother of her virginity by being.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
Nothing exists but my breath. I know this feeling. Usually it comes when something unexpected and momentously awful is about to happen, which doesn't make sense now. I'm just going home.
~ Stacey Donovan
To talk about the senselessness of the battle was to attribute sense to war itself.
~ Sten Nadolny
His ridiculous Victorian ideas reminded me that my sense of worthlessness was a reasonable response to a society bent on limiting the sphere of women.
~ Stephanie Lehmann
Only when we are captured by an overwhelming sense of awe and reverence in the presence of God, will we begin to worship God in spirit and in truth.
~ Alistair Begg