Sense Quotes

That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.

You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsibility to the bank.

What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.

When The Sixth Sense was the No. 1 movie in America, I had a Canadian boyfriend whose only assets at the time were a guitar and a van. I don't know what I was thinking.

The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations.

The majority of us do not enthrone God, we enthrone common sense. We make our decisions and then ask the real God to bless our God's decision.

Giving requires good sense. [Lat., Rest est ingeniosa dare.]

Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

You either make sense or you make money.

I’m glad you think so. I’ve always considered my sense of humor to be largely underappreciated, so it’s nice to finally meet a fan.

I'm a workaholic because I love to play, if that makes sense.

Zen is non-serious. Zen has a tremendous sense of humor. No other religion has evolved so much that it can have that sense of humor.

The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.

How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?

There's a sense of urgency that the president does not possess, that there is a 9/11 in the making.

Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.

I have a strong sense of self, but that's not a negative thing.

Mama is funny. She has a great sense of humor and loves a good joke. Loves a practical joke, too.

Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.

I think that villains who are just brawn, muscles and weapons are boring. So I always try to find intelligence in my villains and also a sense of humor whenever that is possible.

In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants.

There are certainly beliefs in traditional Buddhism that conflict with basic principles of scientific understanding, .. We can't make sense of those beliefs in any kind of scientific framework.

Some-one called my style 'sense of urgency' guitar playing and I've always admitted I often don't know where I'm going when I solo. But that desperation is what makes it exciting.

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.

The fact that I speak five languages is just a plus. I do not try to speak every language I know, in every movie. It must make sense. But, the fact that it's available gives a nice back-up.

One day it's all going to be clear. It's all going to make sense. You're going to be able to say, "So that's why God allowed that in my life!" Until then, God wants you to trust him.

What's interesting is, if you take the scientists and the theologians, the really good ones, they end up both filled with this wide-eyed sense of wonder and awe about look at this world we live in.

I think I have a finely tuned sense of humor. I think just being around it and growing up in it... my dad and Mel Brooks and Norman Lear. These are the people I grew up around.

I've known Alan Zweibel since 1975, and I've always had this sneaking suspicion that he might possess a sense of humor. After reading CLOTHING OPTIONAL, I'm almost sure he does.

I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me.

I like girls who are funny with a warped sense of humor.

Although the universe is under no obligation to make sense, students in pursuit of a Ph. D. are.

I'm a common-sense kind of guy.

It's mandatory in this day and age to be considered to have a sense of humor and to demonstrate it. You're not paying me for a joke, You're paying me for the right joke.

Nowadays, you cannot be a very Effective political figure without Having a demonstrable sense of humor. People take to it.

Advertising is the spur on the flank that keeps modern company-helping economy out of hand till the day common sense is restored, if ever it happens.

The everyday, familiar sense of self who lives in time, and that dimension which we've called presence, that is always here, that is still and quiet.

When we turn our gaze to the inside, it becomes difficult to locate this familiar sense of self. To overcome that fear we need to feel special in some way.

My sense of humor tends toward both the dark and the absurd - two great tastes that, in my opinion, taste great together.

Australians, we've got a very healthy sense of humor in us. God forbid we take ourselves too seriously so it's kind of a cultural trait.

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.

Without common sense, all thine efforts are in vain.

Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song.

Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children.

The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.

I attended the public schools.And I have happy memories and strong memories of those days and good memories of the good sense and the decency of my friends and my neighbors.

Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

I get happier every day. I have a sense of accomplishment every day of my life.