Quotes of: Common-sense Keyword

Is this how it is for a species that senses it is going extinct? Is there a feeling of loneliness, or unease, each morning, upon awakening?

The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness

Give me your wrists, Alayna. I sense your impatience, and I know exactly where you intend for those hands to go.

One Plea

I shrieked like a little girl, which, if you think about it, makes total sense.

Once Upon a Time Travel

Something is happening. I sense a change in the wind…a mutual understanding of each other. I haven’t felt this way in forever.

Perfect Chemistry

There seems to be a sense of balance or equilibrium that nature attempts to achieve with the usage of cycles, leading us to the concept of self-organization and spontaneous order.

Parallelism Of Cyclicality

It is in our relations with other people that we gain a sense of ourselves; it's that, pretty much, that makes relations with other people unbearable.

Platform

You are addressed by the way you dress. Your attire reflects your sense of value or taste and of course, your speech either makes or mars you.

The Prince and the Pauper

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

Pattern Recognition

don't even leap to actions and decisions before you've found that sense of natural calm, well-being, or enthusiasm.

Parallel Universe of Self

A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.

Perdido Street Station

I had come to regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague that there was no sense talking about it.

The Rum Diary

The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Is it any wonder that war is senseless? It’s started by politicians. As a class, politicians have no class, and even less sense.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Each memory was now the shadow of a shadow of a shadow. The only thing that remained tangible to him was the sense of absence.

Tony Takitani

A sense of entitlement is a cancerous thought process that is void of gratitude and can be deadly to our relationships.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Every time we exterminate a predator, we are in a sense creating a new predator.

The Untamed Garden and Other Personal Essays

The importance of awakening to our evolutionary origins is paramount because irrational ideas about “who we are” fuel our sense of separateness

Unspirituality: Permission to Be Human

Nothing in this life will ever make sense to me but I can't help but try to collect the change and hope it's enough to pay for our mistakes.

Unravel Me

She drinks in his nakedness. Her sixth sense of knowing assures her that he is the one she has been waiting for all her life.

Unrequited

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

The Uncommon Reader

Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else; it is to say that that person is superior in some sense.

Venus in Arms