Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
~By Voltaire ~
It should be pursued as in the presence of God, and under the solemn sanctions created by a lively sense of his omniscience, and of our accountability to him for the right use of the faculties which he has bestowed.
~By Simon Greenleaf ~
I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.
~By Winona Ryder ~
Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.
~By Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin ~
I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
~By Alice James ~
But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
~By Taylor Hackford ~
So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.
~By Mary Chapin Carpenter ~
There is nothing useless to men of sense.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.
~By Antonio Banderas ~
You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.
~By Marcus Allen ~
Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.
~By Mariel Hemingway ~
The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?
~By Karl Shapiro ~
The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.
~By John McGahern ~
What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.
~By Stephen Greenblatt ~
It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.
~By Benazir Bhutto ~
Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.
~By Edmund White ~
Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well.
~By Ian St. John ~
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
The avant-garde makes more sense to me.
~By John Cale ~
We have a great sense of togetherness. It is our team spirit that has taken us to this World Cup.
~By Robbie Keane ~
However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.
~By Frances Wright ~
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.
~By George Crumb ~
The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?
~By Paracelsus ~
If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
~By Alan Thicke ~
Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.
~By Anita Desai ~
But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live.
~By Jessica Hagedorn ~
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.
~By Jean Piaget ~
It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.
~By Gregory Bateson ~
I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.
~By Ruben Blades ~
Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.
~By Martin Heidegger ~
Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.
~By Theocritus ~
He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form.
~By John C. Ransom ~
There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress.
~By Tom Berenger ~
Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.
~By Randy West ~
In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense.
~By Minoru Yamasaki ~
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
~By E. B. White ~
Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.
~By Jason Mraz ~
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
~By Abraham Maslow ~
If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.
~By Albert Einstein ~
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
~By Robert Frost ~
If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.
~By Teri Garr ~
Even though it was six o'clock, there was no sense of approaching dawn.
~By Mary Higgins Clark ~
There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.
~By Elijah Wood ~
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.
~By Georg Simmel ~
Show your bluebell passion with every step you take. Infuse your corporeal mind, body and spirit with atomic sense of urgency, purpose and apple juice.
~By Isabel Yosito ~
Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.
~By David Blunkett ~
What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
~By Barbara de Angelis ~
But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques.
~By Jim Henson ~
You've got to have a sense of humour about sex. When you look at it, it's all pretty ridiculous, isn't it?
~By Cat Deeley ~
And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion - of becoming a global communion. So that's why I pointed to New Westminster in Canada, to incidents in the United States, and Sydney itself.
~By George Carey ~
I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.
~By Philip Levine ~
It doesn't make any sense... that's why I trust it!
~By Kate Winslet ~
That ability to take in your surroundings and sort out the important stuff, to be aware, to be vigilant. Then take all that information, put it together, and see if it makes sense to you.
~By Paul Gleason ~
After they killed Uday and Qusay, the focus centered on Saddam: Find him, kill him, capture him, whatever it takes. To me, it was a false sense of security: If we get Saddam, we're going to win this war.
~By Janis Karpinski ~
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
~By W. C. Fields ~
If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.
~By Steve Chabot ~
A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.
~By George Wald ~
I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.
~By Galen Rowell ~
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
~By Erich Fromm ~
Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!
~By Christine Lahti ~
I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives.
~By Randy Harrison ~
I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense.
~By Tina Weymouth ~
Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!
~By Jerry Brown ~
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
~By Errol Morris ~
In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.
~By Myrna Loy ~
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
~By Joseph Addison ~
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
~By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story.
~By Oliver North ~
Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
~By Thurgood Marshall ~
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
~By Josh Billings ~
We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.
~By Andrew Coyle Bradley ~
I'm a common-sense kind of guy.
~By Robert M. Parker, Jr. ~
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
~By W. E. B. Du Bois ~
As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict.
~By Chen Ning Yang ~
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it.
~By Kristen Bell ~
It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
~By Atom Egoyan ~
I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.
~By Leni Riefenstahl ~
The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.
~By Vinton Cerf ~
There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.
~By John von Neumann ~
I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got ideals, but given the right circumstances, we'll forget about them and put them behind us. I'm very interested in why people do that.
~By David Lloyd ~
Well, in the sense that we do not tour or record together anymore - then I suppose not. But if our old recordings get heard more we shall be delighted.
~By Peter Asher ~
Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment.
~By Simon Newcomb ~
Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!
~By Marvin Minsky ~
I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.
~By Ray Kurzweil ~
The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.
~By Bernard De Voto ~
There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.
~By Doris Humphrey ~
Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying it in a moral sense. I'm just saying it in the sense of what is it that's really going to bring change.
~By Jared Diamond ~
I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.
~By Carrie Underwood ~
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
~By Vladimir Nabokov ~
No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
~By Andre Breton ~
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