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Sense Quotes

Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.

It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.

I was so ashamed of who I was, a kind of semi-racist, which didn't make sense.

America has changed [...] The gigantic scale of industrial institutions, of press, television, and commercial advertising has completely divorced me from the American way of life. I want the other side of the coin, a simpler personal sense of living.

I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.

The moral sense perhaps affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals.

It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God.

Parliamentary cretinism: that peculiar malady which since 1848 has raged all over the Continent, which holds those infected by it fast in an imaginary world and robs them of all sense, all memory, all understanding of the rude external world.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Live with no sense of 'mine,' not forming attachment to experiences.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

The people of the South have too much of good sense, and good temper, to attempt the ruin of the government ... At least, so I hope and believe.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.