Without a sense of humor, you don't have much sense at all.
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?
It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not that common!
I think people believe empathy to be compassion, that compassion is an inner sense (a sense of the soul). But empathy is a sense, while compassion isn't a sense. Empathy is an affinity, a communion, a comprehension. They say that empathy is compassio...
In its encounter with Nature, science invariably elicits a sense of reverence and awe. The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos. And the cumulative worldwi...
But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was behavior, socially determined. That beh...
I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where it's going. So I have only the most general sense of what I'm doing when I start a story. I sometimes have a destination in mind, but how the story is going ...
The connection between spirit and other matter, or between the visible and invisible world of human beings, is at present little understood. I am of the opinion that the connection is far more intimate than is generally believed. Of this fact there i...
What i Like about Photography is that it takes moments that should have been forgotten, and just Freezes them, and allows us to share it with everyone and share it with future generations. But theirs is also the sense of Secrets of the picture, or th...
The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.
The fifth sense is "common sense"- either you have it or you don't.
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
I mean, I don't know much about the Civil War, but whenever I think of that time—I mean, ever since I've had these fantasies about those generals, those gorgeous young Southern generals with their tawny mustaches and beards, and hair in ringlets, o...
Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General Electric, General Dynamics, and all the other genera...
One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.
My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money.
General Mireau: Hello there, soldier. Ready to kill more Germans? Private Ferol: Yes, sir. General Mireau: What's your name, soldier? Private Ferol: Sir, Private Ferol, Company A. General Mireau: Aha. You married, soldier? Private Ferol: No, sir. Gen...
[last lines] Lt. General Frederick "Boy" Browning: I've just been on to Monty. He's very proud and pleased. Major General Urquhart: Pleased? Lt. General Frederick "Boy" Browning: Of course. He thinks Market Garden was 90% successful. Major General Ur...
Major Tom Baxter: We're asking them. We're asking them for a new deadline. General Hummel: Put the phone down. Major Tom Baxter: The men are falling apart! General Hummel: The men are Marines! Major Tom Baxter: Are they? [Hummel is silent] Major Tom ...
