Quotes of: Common-sense Keyword

We tend to block off many of our senses when we're staring at a screen. Nature time can literally bring us to our senses.

Richard Louv

What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness. This relates to respect for each other and carelessness is personally offensive.

Jonathan Ive

Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.

Tupac Shakur

A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.

Wentworth Miller

The inner life is bruised by a running against the laws of the Kingdom. The bruises are guilt complexes, a sense of inferiority, of missing the mark, of being out of harmony with God and with oneself, a sense of wrongness. Divine forgiveness wipes ou...

The Unshakable Kingdom and the Unchanging Person

I who am blind can give one hint to those who see: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as ...

Helen Keller

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

Havelock Ellis

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

Benjamin Spock

My good sense bitch-slapped my estrogen and told her to get a grip.

The Impossible Knife of Memory

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.

Killosophy

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

Killosophy

Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.

Killosophy

Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.

Suffering: Making Sense of Suffering 5pk

Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.

The Sense of an Ending

This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use; back then it was a 'broken home'...

The Sense of an Ending

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

The Sense of an Ending

I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

The Sense of an Ending

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction

Madness, Brother Masseo, is the salt which prevents good sense from rotting.

Saint Francis

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

Life of Pi

It all made perfect sense, and at the same time, nothing seemed to make sense at all.

A Walk to Remember