Quotes of: Common-sense Keyword

Completing the circle is both philosophical and tactical - there is a growing sense of mastery that comes with practice, diligence, and experience.

Playbook for Progressives: 16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer

Like poetry, in times of intense emotion the image returns to me. Like poetry, it stroked my soul and, by turns, lulled and stoked my senses.

The Palace the Palace

In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.

Paradise Tales: and Other Stories

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.

The Phantom Tollbooth

It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.

The Painted Veil

He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend.

Requiem for a Dream

You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

Tuesdays with Morrie

I wrote a zen koan once about love, but it didn’t make any sense. That’s how I knew I had accurately described love.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

You are my home; it is in your loving gaze that I find the comfort, acceptance, and the sense of belonging.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

I Became a free woman when I decided to stop dreaming, freedom that is waiting for nothing .. and anticipation is a state of slavery" - Ahlam (Chaos of the Senses)

Unknown

It’s the butterflies in our bellies, and the lightening in our eyes that tells me this all makes so much fucking sense.

Write like no one is reading 2

She’d felt it before, she felt it now: the pull to fall in with him, to fall into him, to lose her sense of self.

The Winner's Crime

A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.

War Is Kind and Other Poems

The moment my niece came into the world, I realized that logic can't make sense of someone who's so brand new to you.

Write like no one is reading

The sense that just about anything goes with the collection of public revenues and the making of public expenditure has contributed mightily to the current malaise.

Why Progressive Institutions Are Unsustainable

\ Who can know the absolute truth of illusion or emptiness? That is why we feel the fulfilled sense of this world.

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

it does seem the more we drink the better the words go.

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

one doesn't even think of the liver and if the liver doesn't think of us, that's fine.

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

the price of creation is never too high. the price of living with other people always is.

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first esc...

Anthony Hecht

I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea th...

Abigail Washburn