Quotes of: General-sense Keyword

I no longer liked the night. The darkness was where he lied in wait, waiting for it to swallow me whole, suffocating my senses with fear.

Nearly Broken

Only the king that has succeeded in subduing his senses is competent to resist his foes.

Leadership Secrets From The Mahabharata

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.

The Library at Night

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

Life of Pi

Now, my intention was to drink just enough to dull the senses, but intentions should never be mixed with alcohol.

The Last Stop

Life baffles me most days. Maybe that's why I write. To try and make sense of it all.

The Little Silkworm

Memories establish the past; Senses perceive the present; Imaginations shape the future.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

The world is full of love stories, and all lovers are in a sense the avatars of their predecessors.

Midnight's Children

There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.

In Search of King Solomon's Mines

In one sense, (Duchamp's) “The Large Glass” is a glimpse into Hell; a peculiarly modernist Hell of repetition and loneliness.

The Shock of the New

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

The Selected Poems

No es el tiempo ni la ocasión los que determinan la intimidad: es sólo el carácter, la disposición de las personas.

Sense and Sensibility

The Bible is the story so far in the true novel that God is still writing.

Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

Sense and Sensibility

She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart.

Sense and Sensibility

Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

Sense and Sensibility

Banii pot aduce fericire numai acolo unde n-o poate aduce nimic altceva. In afara de anumite inlesniri, banii nu pot oferi bucurii adevarate

Sense and Sensibility

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion…

Sense and Sensibility

He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of an heavy rain.

Sense and Sensibility

It was literature in its finest sense, since it made Unk courageous, watchful, and secretly free.

The Sirens of Titan

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology