Senses Quotes

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Milan Kundera

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
John Calvin

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
Simone de Beauvoir

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.
Graham Greene

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.
Judy Garland

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or Ia don't have some love for some part of it.
Elvis Costello

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
Alfred Adler

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.
Joan Crawford

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
Aleister Crowley

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

I believe in a long prolonged derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

No sense makes sense.
Charles Manson

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.
John Irving

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
Max Weber

Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
Ed Howe

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.
Jason Mraz

The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense.
Jean Piaget

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
F. L. Lucas

I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends.
Jim Henson

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
Joe Paterno

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.
Vera Wang

Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.
David Hockney

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
Douglas Horton

Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.'

A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor.
Kathy Griffin

Is he out of his senses?! Does he not see Beppo the Greek next to him? Beppo who`s 20 years old and is going to the gas chamber tomorrow, and knows it, and lies there staring up at the light, without saying anything, without even thinking anymore.
Primo Levi

I like the old custom of godparents. Neither of my parents were good carriers or teachers for me, and at age 15, I had the instinctive sense to go out and get myself a pair of godparents.
Robert Johnson

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.
Mercy Otis Warren

Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation.
James Weldon Johnson

Surrealism! What is Surrealism? In my opinion, it is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of the subject but in a very particular sense, that of the strange and illogical.
Paul Delvaux