Sense Quotes

I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.

We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.

Forget about trying to stabilize the personal sense of Self. It is inherently unstable. See that the Self watches this.

I guess God has a sense of humor, when he had a man that wanted to start his life as a priest, end up marrying a preacher.

Thank God you've got a sense of humor, or you'd be in trouble.

I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.

You don't have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories, but Christians say we have to believe there was a Christ, or the miracles don't make sense.

One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

Working with existing pictures, like I do, you constantly think about the flood of images we are subjected to and you want to figure out how you can make sense of it.

I like the idea of being the funny guy in the dramatic thing, playing a hit man with a weird sense of humor.

I have a sixth sense, but not the other five. If I wasn't making money, they'd put me away.

Anything which retains interest is optimistic. When the characters become disinterested, it's pessimistic. Does that make sense?

If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.

I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in good sense, sound judgement, and manly character.

Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.

Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.

For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is?

To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.

Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.

It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

But I am not discouraged. I do not despair for our country. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency, compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail.

One pleasant surprise was when I interviewed Butch Patrick. I was expecting this bitter old drunk, and instead he had a total sense of humor about his career and his drinking and drug problem.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges.

Threatened men live long.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.

The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.

Education always continues. We all know that beauty fades, but what stays is a person's personality, their sense of humor, their wit, what they're interested in. That's what really shines.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.

A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.

One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.

Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense

Everyone expects us to have a sense of urgency for life's big things. Life measures us by how we engage ourselves in the little things.

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.

The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear.

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get into high school.

There is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating.