Sense Quotes

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

In other words, our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don't care what it is.

Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.

I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Realizing that common sense and common decency alike dictate the futility of appeasement, we shall never try to placate an aggressor by the false and wicked bargain of trading honor for security.

I have got the utmost faith in the long-term common sense of the American people. Therefore, I don't think there should be any inhibitions other than those that were in the 35-year age limit and so on. I think that was enough, myself.

When people have a sense of our military capability, nobody will ever dare to cast an evil eye on our nation.

Music cannot be called otherwise than the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, a sense second to sight, and her harmony is composed of the union of its proportional parts sounded simultaneously, rising and falling in one or more harmonic rhythms.

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.

If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends. Somewhere somebody must have a little sense, and that's the strong person.

The Socialists have spared no expense in producing a policy for the next election. There is a great deal in it that is sound sense, as well as a lot more that is all sound and all nonsense.

A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint. I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.

Tries to think that I'm just doing my own thing, but every time I look back it always really makes sense in that time.

There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink.

I mean why have 52 rooms and you know there's somebody with no room? It just don't make sense to me.