Quotes about sense

I will no longer argue with the senseless and unreasonable for they are void of reason and common sense.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

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.

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

Our future is our sense of common destiny.

If you're authentic, people smile because they sense there's a piece of themselves there.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he's musical because he constantly refers to settings where there's singing and dancing.

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

When I feel the beauty in words, I am sensing the logic of heart.

The people's need to share has turned into a massive disease. It has taken them to the most private meaningless part of their lives. In such circumstance, values become redefined and what has been worthless in the past, has become the core value of the new age. The disaster starts where the essence of the discourse changes. The modern age, with all its technological advances, has taken human to the fast fall. We are going down faster than being trapped into a mire. The transition of the discours

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

We always become weaker when our soul gets into a stronger desire to own another. Like the way, our knees gets weaker when we see into their eyes. And the way, our hearts and minds defy every law of gravity and make us feel light and float into the infinity. The way, our soul bonds to theirs and becomes stronger. The way, their touch feels like thousands of stars bombarding together ripping us out of our senses and reality. Filling every void inside us, and how everything seems so right. Like a

In the worldly life, due to maadakta (intoxication of the ego of ‘I am Chandubhai’), one has completely lost awareness of everything about one’s self. Everything in the worldly life is nothing but intoxication. The food is intoxicating, the senses are intoxicating. [Therefore] Go to the one, who is without mada (pride), the one who has destroyed all intoxication. There in his proximity, you will realize that, ‘wow! The intoxication of the ego is something that can go down!’ Then ‘our’ awareness

Learning stamps you with it's moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.

I want to sleep. To find a safe place somewhere, and close my eyes, and rest, like an animal. That is what I am. An animal. Living from moment to moment, day to day, trying to make sense of the world in which I find myself.

We are taught to think ourselves ugly. Eyes are an assaulted sense. We are taught to behave by spankings and whippings. Touch is an assaulted sense. We are taught we should not smell, or we smell wrong. Smell is an assaulted sense. We listen to songs that call us 'hos and tell us how to give blow jobs. Hearing is an assaulted sense. Taste, not so much.

No one ought even to desert a woman after throwing her a heap of gold in her distress! He ought to love her forever! You are young, only twenty-one, and kind and upright and fine. You'll ask me how a woman can take money from a man. Oh, God, isn't it natural to share everything with the one we owe all our happiness to? When one has given everything, how can one quibble about a mere portion of it? Money is important only when feeling has ceased. Isn't one bound for life? How can you foresee separ

A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

I guess she was a life line Sewing our family fabric togetherFrom me to dad to herGave me a sense of continuity Especially when my daughter was bornAs she was slipping away

If you want to be sure of unusual thing such as aliens or UFOs, then you have to think about it from an unusual way of thinking.

Now I am twenty-eight, and am in reality more illiterate than many schoolboys of fifteen. It is true that I have thought more, and that my day dreams are more extended and magnificent; but they want (as the painters call it) keeping; and I greatly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise me as romantic, and affection enough for me to endeavour to regulate my mind.

Love is the opposite of good sense.

Karate without heart is just A corpse

Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.

We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find out interest in life returning to us.

I'll never know the right answer for sex and marriage, sense and mirage.

Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant—so that he constantly called different things by that name—but nevertheless used the word in a way fitting in with the usual symptoms and presuppositions of ‘pain’—in short he uses it as we all do. Here I should like to say: a wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not part of the mechanism

The existence of guilty sense is soimportant in education and religion.

Worldly things (laukik) are perceived through the senses (indriya-gamya). That, which is beyond the world (alaukik), is perceived [through the knowledge which is] beyond the senses (atindriya-gamya).

But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith.

We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same difference between a myth and a miracle that there is between fiction and falsehood -- between poetry and perjury. Miracles belong to the far past and the far future. The little line of sand, called the present, between the seas, belongs to common sense to the natural.

Remembrance and reflection how allied!What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!

Sanity and sense becomes a prison.

But when we train the senses we conserve our vital energy, the very stuff of life. Patient and secure within, we do not have to look to externals for satisfaction. No matter what happens outside--whether events are for or against us, however people behave towards us, whether we get what pleases us or do not--we are in no way dependent. Then it is that we can give freely to others; then it is that we can love.

In the quantum multiverse all eventualities are possible. Which means, paradoxically, that all eventualities are inevitable. They have also quite possibly already happened. Make of that what you will, not that your will has much to do with it. Because here's the thing. If you believe that consciousness is an accumulation of memory; if you believe that you often know what's going to occur either through some animal instict or a human subscription to fate, then you are a walking and talking embodi

String theory makes sense to me because the universe is a symphony that creates harmony with the vibration of our strings.

Always find sense in your actions

.Each one of us must have a goal and sense of living

I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

Sense howEven the smooth stones acheWith stories of their ownIn the shuddering light of day.

common sense is embedded in common things

Raise your children don't train them RjS

A nursery rhyme shapes your bones and nerves, and it shapes your mind. They are powerful, nursery rhymes, and immensely old, and not toys, even though they are for children." "But they make no sense!" Summer protested "Ah, well," said Ben. "Sometimes sense hides behind walls. You must find a window and stick your head right in before you can see it.

...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...

CoMMOn SeNSe iS nOt sO cOmMOn aMoNg coMMon pEOPLe...

...but that was the thing about reality. It didn't need to make sense.

If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.

Four Day’s Four Night’sMy desire her eyesHer attention my lifeI claim she refuses..!In the passion of hopeI wasAll day all nightHer ignorance my fallI like rides so I movedI know now she wantsAfter immense instanceWe metWith less in words..!Exchanging thru eyes a lotJovial and congenialAll day all nightI claim again..!Response remains..?My hope is my ecstasyYour woe is your waitI hope…!You sense the harmonyOf my bond on two wheelsYou will alwaysMy first loveTill the ceaseI loved youAll days all

Sometimes, falling back on or using an old method or habit, is like sliding into a pair of worn running shoes and a corset. Doesn't make sense to others, but it's not for them. It's what keeps you together, what keeps you going.

At night we sort the energy that by day we sense.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Faith also means reaching deeply within, for the sense one was born with, the sense, for example, to go for a walk.

A mystical symphony permeates my senses and a holy lullaby embraces me.

Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise.

Wake up to think of words… want to walk through pages of meanings, the links in assonance, alliteration, or just simple sense that moves the eye to leap that way to the next-door play of sound and resonance.

Words only make sense when someone who says them does.

Mental illness is not in the business of making sense of itself.

It is simple. Men lose their birthrights for a mess of pottage only if they stop using the gifts given them by God for their betterment. By prayer. That is the first and greatest gift. use the gift of prayer. Ask for strength of mind, and a clear vision. Then sense. Use your sense. Not all of us are born for greatness, but all of us have sense. Make use of it. Think. Think long and well. By prayer and good thought you will conquer all enemies....Behold, the night is coming. Prepare, for the time

Fool, there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.

I may not believe that 'all things happen for a reason.' But I do believe that reason may come from all things that happen.

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound,Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

There is no UFO and also there is no alien, at least not in common mind nor reference.

If you want to find wilier race by common sense, then you have just narrowed your searching area.

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.

University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can't teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced within one's soul.

The maid told him that a girl and a child had come looking for him, but since she didn't know them, she hadn't cared to ask them in, and had told them to go on to Mers."Why didn't you let them in?" asked Germain angrily. "People must be very suspicious in this part of the world, if they won't open the front door to a neighbor.""Well, naturally!" replied the maid. "In a house as rich as this, you have to keep a close watch on things. While the master's away I'm responsible for everything, and I c

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

What a surprise. That boy doesn't have the sense God gave a cactus.

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

What were you supposed to say to people you barely knew? That was the kind of thing I needed lessons in - forget algebra and history.

I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

Nikola Tesla, one of Colorado's famous residents, always believed that the gasoline engine made no sense.

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.

What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness. This relates to respect for each other and carelessness is personally offensive.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.

I wouldn't give ten gallons of my own piss for clear sentence that gives the sense of a tree as a tree, when I revel in the nonsense of its being my own Grandfather, a letter from yesterday, or a masturbating fist.

I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

Common sense is very uncommon.

Common sense is in spite of not the result of education.

Common sense is instinct and enough of it is genius.

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

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

If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.

I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.

You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

God has a most wicked sense of humor.

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.

I've got a sense of humor. I'm a funny guy.