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