Quotes of: Common-sense Keyword

People used to say obvious things ironically or as a form of understatement, but in the last few decades they seem to say it with a sense of discovery, and it worries me.

Clan Rathskeller

Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.

Catch-22

A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy.

Culture and Value

The instant Isabella Cortez left the safety of the FBI building, goose bumps skittered across her skin and her senses went on high alert.

Disarming Detective

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Dune

Desires intellectual, social etc., but they all be, Soul‟s longing through mind and senses activity. - 40 -

Devi Mahatmayam in English Rhyme

She held the book in her hands, feeling a sense of awe, and lightly ran a finger over its cover as if it contained sacred writings.

Dancing Softly

Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.

The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity

I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear.

Engleby

You don’t realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don’t have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.

Euphoria

Remembrance and reflection how allied! What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!

Essay on Man and Other Poems

Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems.

Escolios a un texto implicito: Seleccion

The density of the butterflies in the air now gave her a sense of being underwater, plunged into a deep pond among bright fishes.

Flight Behavior

That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.

The Flint Heart

Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste.

The Flamethrowers

No, no, no, so not getting the point of fear. Because fear wasn't about what made sense. Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might.

Fear

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

The Fire Next Time

We discover the depths of our humanity when we let go of reality and enter the realm of the senses.

Girl Trade

I love arguing with you, Claire. You always surprise me. And occasionally, you even make sense.

Ghost Town

The whole damn century would've made more sense backwards. Where we ended is worse than where we began.

The Hundred-Year House