Quotes of: Common-sense Keyword

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

A Natural History of the Senses

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina

When night comes on in a room lit by kerosene, any flicker of the flame can give the sense that darkness is about to triumph.

Let Him Go

All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.

To the Lighthouse

There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd.

Levels of Life

The sense of fulfillment is often hidden in acts of kindness

Leading from the Gut: 3 Power Principles of Effective Leaders

I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.

Listen, Little Man!

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

The Library at Night

Preserve a sense of proportion in your attitude to everything that pleases you, and make the most of them while they are at their best.

Letters from a Stoic

I can tell you that the only thing in the world that makes sense to me right now is you and me.

The Lonesome Young

I can tell you that the only ting in the world that makes sense to me right now is you and me.

The Lonesome Young

Freedom from likes and dislikes, the sudden sense of identification, the spirit of comedy.

M: Writings '67-'72

Eyes can't sense a smell of rain before it drops. Mind can't see event of future before it happens.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.

Mockingjay

The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.

Speak, Memory

Why was it that thoughts and plans always made more sense when confined to one's mind than when they exited one's mouth?

Stealing the Preacher

...the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

Sense and Sensibility

Marianne could never love by halves; and her whole heart became, in time, as much devoted to her husband, as it had once been to Willoughby.

Sense and Sensibility

Besides my great fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.

Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay

Sex is a different medium, refracting time and sense, a biological hyperspace as remote from conscious existence as dreams, or as water is from air

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