Quotes of: Common-sense Keyword

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

Polly Toynbee

I inherited my sense of passion and romance from the Romans. Specifically Nero and all the fire he possessed.

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36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction

Crazy people. They never think they're crazy. Their craziness makes perfect sense to them.

The 5th Wave

His (Lincoln's) patriotism was saved from idolatry by the overwhelming sense of the sovereignty of God.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

Anthem

What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.

The Art Spirit

All his senses screamed in warning, the very air reeking of forbidden magic, but duty call him forward.

The Assassin's Tear

[his healing skills] ..lay in the ability to comfort, to comfort in the proper sense, to make strong, to fortify

The Hippopotamus

He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

Irving's Sketch Book

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

Illuminations

Deadlines give us the sense that we are really on our way and that we will achieve the goal – soon!

On The Journey To Achievement

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.

Killosophy

In a sense, discouragement does not have to exist. Allow it to be rather the encouragement to honestly reconsider all the options, then, as necessary, shine on.

Killosophy

Makes sense, the earth is quick to consume the flesh of things that ain't natural.

Red Rider's Hood

Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity.

Reading Between the Lines

Obscenity is a function of culture - a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the variables on which it depends.

Sabine

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

Sand and Foam

Art doesn't have to make sense, little dhamphir. Besides, I'm supposed to be crazy, right?

Shadow Kiss

As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.

Mr. Maybe

Some who grow dull religious straight commence And gain in morals what they lose in sense.

Minor Poems