Make Sense Quotes

You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century, I felt hope.

It's getting funnier because everybody's categories are disintegrating, and the cult of political correctness dictates that we never point out that other people don't make sense.

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

One needs to continually make sense of a baffingly complex, constantly changing environment. Brief, succinct quotes can quickly produce clarity amid moral murkiness

If I can learn how to manage myself, why would I give you 20 percent and people are looking for me? It just doesn't make sense.

When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.

We're living in such a fantasy world where nothing makes sense anymore.

It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.

We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them.

Being a father makes everything in the world make sense.

Feelings aren't sensible. Sometimes you fall in love with people who don't make sense. And the ones who do make sense turn out to be the wrong ones.

I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them.

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won't make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.

If you're gonna wait for the universe to start making sense, you have a long wait ahead of you.

It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

I don't have any of the answers, son. Never did. All I can do is keep asking the questions. Keep trying to make sense of why people do what they do.

I remember writing a paper on human evolution in 1944, and I simply left Piltdown out. You could make sense of human evolution if you didn't try to put Piltdown into it.

If a spiritual teacher says something that doesn't make sense to you, you should always listen to yourself and not the teacher. A little common sense would end all cults.

Throughout my life, I've learned to make choices that make me happy and make sense for me. Even my husband is happier when I'm happy.

When you're not finding the fairway, it's hard to be consistent. [Right now] I'm comfortable and I'm not so comfortable, if that makes sense.

I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.

I am shamelessly biased about the people in my life, and it makes sense to me that other people are the same.

Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.

It doesn't make sense to change who you are just to hang out with people you think are cool. You know, you just have to be yourself.

When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some order, and writing fiction is the only way I've found that seems to begin to do that.

Mr False Pretence, you don't make sense I just don't know you But you make me cry, where's my kiss goodbye I think I love you

You don't want to be so far off the planet that you come out with something that doesn't make sense to anybody.

I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense.

And I think that if something doesn't make sense, forcing yourself to understand it from [Chris Nolan's] perspective makes you better.

The only thing that makes sense is if the universe is beautiful and simple and elegant.

The audience is your first collaborator with the material. If that makes sense.

I know plenty of actors smarter than me with better taste than me who love horror movies and love sci-fi and it just doesn't make sense to me.

I don't think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.

I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.

When I'm on a roll nothing makes me happier or feel more satisfied, like plugging in, life makes sense.

When our worries and fears just don't make sense, it's possible we are trusting the part of the brain that doesn't make sense... it just reacts.

There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world.

Facebook is weird. They have all of these seemingly random rules that I'm sure make sense to them, but don't make sense to me or any people.

She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.

The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.

I'm guessing that musicals didn't make sense anymore because of the changes in the political environment that began in the late Sixties, an era of self-awareness and social revolutions.

People get so upset about lyrics, and they're probably totally cool with horror movies. That doesn't really make sense.

Men are handicapped when it comes to arguing, 'cause we have a need to make sense.

Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense or it doesn't work.

Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort of way. No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

The writer writes about what happened in order to make it make sense, to put it in perspective, to turn it into art; and art becomes the vehicle on which we ride out the truth of our experiences.

Write it down today, put it away, make sense of it tomorrow.

When I'm directing, I can look at something that I wrote and say, "This doesn't make sense." There's a lot more intuition and gut involved.

I write to make sense of things that dont make sense to me.