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These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word. — Ralph Adams Cram

I think I got a lot of my 'funny' DNA from my mother, who had a glorious sense of the ridiculous. — Christopher Buckley

But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized. — Suzanne Vega

But you have to have a vision of what kind of military you are trying to build in order to get the [budget] cuts to make sense. — Jessica Mathews

We're on the eve of destruction. Men have lost all sense of honor. Power has become their faith instead of faith being their power. — Atiq Rahimi

If we get above the individualized soul's journey, you will see that we are all one. We are all one light. In that sense, we are all enlightened. — Frederick Lenz

You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame. — Seneca The Younger

Our love for our country is worth nothing if it deprives us of our sense of humanity, if it destroys positive consensus. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it. — Matt Stone

Intelligence is a necessity, but when one is without a supernatural sense, intelligence becomes senseless. — Michael Bassey Johnson

To sense which gifts to accept & which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom. — Sharon Salzberg

They did not know what we can now sense as we contemplate the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it shows in our lives ... — Franz Kafka

In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done. — Paul Banks

Be the story teller in your life ... never let anyone dictate what you're about. — Robbie Thomas

Common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable. — Susanne Katherina Langer

Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been. — Louis Gustave Vapereau

What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart. — Jerry Spinelli

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

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

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

If you SENSE something, SAY something. — Stephanie Arnold

Perhaps we don't always discriminate between sense and nonsense. — George Eliot

I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too. — Jim Goad

Many people have said to me that I'm a mystic. I find that a bit mysterious. I just use logic and common sense for my philosophies. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart. — Joyce Carol Oates

The point isn't just whether children know what to expect; it's whether what they've come to expect makes sense. — Alfie Kohn

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur — Doug Larson

I'm more relaxed about how the editing process will create a performance and that, in a way, gives me a sense of freedom. — Ralph Fiennes

I'm a cat. We aren't required to make sense. — Seanan McGuire

I always had a weird thing with being the last person somewhere ... like a movie theater or a classroom. I get a weird sense of anxiety. — Alona Tal

She was standing by the barometer, which, if it had had an ounce of sense in its head, would have been pointing to 'Stormy' instead of 'Set Fair — P.G. Wodehouse

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome. — Arthur Helps

The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families. — Robert Wuthnow

Lists comforted her - they gave her a sense of accomplishment - they meant she had control of something. — Dakota Cassidy

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless? — Carlos Castaneda

I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community. — Chrissie Hynde

Our lives are spent sailing in the mist, hoping for a burst of sunlight that can make sense of who we are. — David Gemmell

With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull. — Charles Churchill

I have neither the ability of a poet or the flourish of a dramatist. But I must admit I was floored — Tushar Raheja

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing. — John Searle

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory. — Dan Chaon

I'm not a big believer in the sense of Jews having a monopoly on comedy. — Woody Allen

THERE'S OLD SORROW in your blood like second nature and new sorrow that maddens the halls of sense. Causes — Sebastian Barry

This is a haiku
Haiku's don't have to make sense
Refrigerator — Anonymous

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality. — Billie Joe Armstrong

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness. — James Anthony Froude

Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty. — Albert Camus

Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed. — Benoit Mandelbrot

Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works — Kevin Kelly

Might as Well Laugh ... remember ... when ... Life ... made ... sense — Ellen Hopkins

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer. — Terry Southern

If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things-you feel that after death, you will be no more. — Sidney Poitier

Oh, remember this, the sweetness of religion is incomparably more than all the pleasures of sense. — William Bates

Never dull your sense of being your utmost for His highest - your best for His glory. — Oswald Chambers

I'm at the point where I just ... don't. I know that doesn't make any fucking sense, but it's how I feel. I don't. — Kim Holden

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense. — Helen Gurley Brown

I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. — David Lynch

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense. — Alan Moore

He gave way to the fear that had come with her, the sense of the breaking of promises, the incoherence of Time. He broke. — Ursula K. Le Guin

In a sense "all the way to Heaven is Heaven" (St. Catherine). — Peter Kreeft

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful. — Rashida Jones

Transformation
without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss
is just an illusion of true change. — Wm. Paul Young

If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica. — David Carson

I consider myself a reasonable man. As such, I tend to expect others to behave with a modicum of reason and common sense. Especially those with power. — Peter Horton

There are pockets of time, she thinks, where every sense rings like a bell, where the world brims with fleeting grace. — Dominic Smith

In one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom lies through excess" (p. 113) — Jack Kerouac

I was imbued from a very early age with a sense of doom. — Ruth Rendell

I have a collective sense of suffering. — Alice Walker

Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it. Don't do market research. — Akio Morita

I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune. — Neil Strauss

The Church's mission is not political in nature. Her task is to open the world to the religious sense by proclaiming Christ. — Pope Benedict XVI

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Common Core's become a one-size-fits-all program that simply doesn't make sense for our state," Jindal said at a news conference. — Anonymous

What sense is there in pain at all - however we contrive it for ourselves as we cast about for ways to bind up the wound between us and God? — Anne Carson

Jump up, look around, find yourself some fun. No sense in sitting there hating everyone. — Jethro Tull

In a world of common nonsense, our best defence is common sense. — Juliet Castle

To reflect is to regain a little, lost sense of proportion — Salman Rushdie

It had been a turning point in her life, in some sense it's most important moment; she had seen the world and retreated. — Philipp Meyer

The thing as an actor is you get a sense of what a show is like the minute you walk on the set. — David Morrissey

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all. — Ugo Betti

Quitters have the good sense to admit their mistakes, cut their losses, and move on. — Evan Harris

She was no intellectual, but men were scrupulous about avoiding intellectual women unless they had the sense to keep it well hidden. — Margaret Way

The person who has a sense of humor is not just more relaxed in the face of a potentially stressful situation, but is more flexible in his approach. — John Morreall

The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense. — William Shakespeare

It is in our relations with other people that we gain a sense of ourselves; it's that, pretty much, that makes relations with other people unbearable. — Michel Houellebecq

What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity. — Richard Eyre

In real life, Josh [Gad] is a different kind of lovable idiot. In real life, he's a much filthier idiot. He has a dirty sense of humor. — Josh Gad

There is little sense in pitting a lesser sense of duty against a greater one. No leader could expect loyalty to hold under those circumstances. — C.S. Pacat

Instead of complaining about problems in your stomach, mind what goes into your stomach to cause the problems in your stomach. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Even if we are often led to desire through the sense of beauty can you say that the beautiful is what we desire? — James Joyce

I learned a lot doing 'Wolverine,' and I was also very fortunate, in the sense that I got to do a huge number of visual effects shots. — Gavin Hood

I have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form. — Grant Morrison

The hardness of the human heart makes no sense. — Rob Bell

This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense. — Mark Rothko

Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone. — Laura Mvula

Sometimes things just don't make sense. Sometimes we never have answers to these questions. — Corinne Michaels

Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence — Brother Lawrence

The things that matter don't necessarily make sense. — Russell Hoban

In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well& others are barely able to love them at all.. — Wm. Paul Young

Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached a state of completion. — Walter J. Ong