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" Quotes and Sayings About sense

People admire talent, and talk about their admiration. But they value common sense without talking about it, and often without knowing it.

People admire Talent Admiration Value
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There's more than one way to sense violence.
More Sense Than Violence
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
Age Almost Entitlement Instant
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

Am Because Common Criminal
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A man tired of dreaming, is a man tired of living. So I still dream, I make my dream scary, scary in the sense that I make my dream look so impossible, so I would surprise myself at the end of the day.

Dreaming Tired Living Impossible
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I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

All Your Life Am Life Man
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Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.

Any Artist Calling Duty
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I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

Forward Learn Move Move Forward
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I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.

Apart Believe Come Communist
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One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.

Progress Sense Better Things
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People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.

Secure Less Sense New
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It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.

Happiness Money Extent People
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Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.

Absolute Always Anything Bodies
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It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.

Apparent Because Bodies Come
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And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.

Ability Fats His Humor
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My philosophy is: If you can't have fun, there's no sense in doing it.

Doing Fun HaveFun NoSense
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My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.

Came Family I Came Important
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If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It makes you go into detail that you can avoid. It takes a lot of energy out of you but that's the only way you finally actually achieve excellence. So in that sense, being finicky is essential.

Perfection Excellence Aim Drawbacks
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Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

Alone Being BeingAlone Created
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Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

Coat Confession Good Only
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Sephora has always been the best, in the sense that they love me for me and that they let me be me. That's the coolest part. I think that's why the products are great - because there's a sincerity and authenticity.

Always Authenticity Because Been
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Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.

Added Appliances Electrical Instruments
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You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.
Create beauty Excite Sustenance Soul
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I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense.

Seen Truth Sense
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Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior.

Animal Behavior Bringing Child
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What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth?

Add Appeared Art Attempt
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I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.

Think Important Fear Always doubting
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I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.
Anger Around Blanket Me
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I have a need to always make people laugh. I have a desperate need. I love a great sense of humor. The people I sort of surround myself with have that.

Always Desperate Great GreatSense
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

Difficult Enjoy Keep Living
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I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.

Angst Appreciate Boring Cool
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I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.

Charlie Charlie Parker Create Fine
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Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

Any Beautiful Complete Context
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I worry about my kids growing up and how the world might hurt them. But at the same time, I absolutely do not worry about them growing up - because they have great values and a great sense of self.

About Absolutely Because Great
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The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
Deceive Deceived Even From Time To Time
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All artists need to have a sense of curiosity, and if you are not a curious person, then you cannot be an artist.

All artist Curiosity Person
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Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

Common sense Privilege World
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Any artist, when he goes in to record, should have the feeling that any song he records can be a hit. This may sound egotistical, but it makes sense.

Any Artist Egotistical Feeling
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I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.

Being Faculties Gives God
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I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.

God Humor Sense Think
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Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

Women Grow older Cosmetics Men
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People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
Emotion Good Good Sense Love
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The way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked.

Intelligent When people Started out Make sense
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The province of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail.

Province Faith Probabilities cease
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There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.

Emphasis Generally Jokes Life
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We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

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

Brain Come Depend Different
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I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.

Create Darkness Echo Fight
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Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.

Everything Expressions Inspires Love
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The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

Fractured Full Goal Need
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