Quotes of: Sense-of-humor Keyword

Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems.

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The density of the butterflies in the air now gave her a sense of being underwater, plunged into a deep pond among bright fishes.

Flight Behavior

That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.

The Flint Heart

Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste.

The Flamethrowers

No, no, no, so not getting the point of fear. Because fear wasn't about what made sense. Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might.

Fear

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

The Fire Next Time

We discover the depths of our humanity when we let go of reality and enter the realm of the senses.

Girl Trade

I love arguing with you, Claire. You always surprise me. And occasionally, you even make sense.

Ghost Town

The whole damn century would've made more sense backwards. Where we ended is worse than where we began.

The Hundred-Year House

Being a mother was like being trapped in the first fifteen minutes of a horror film. Everything was fine, lovely. But there was this persistent sense of dread.

Hush Hush

There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.

The Bad Beginning

We also have noses that run and feet that smell.Sometimes the universe just doesn't make sense.

To the Batpole: An Essay/Parody on Batman

In an insane world, sanity made very little sense. No one expected me to live, and therefore, I did. Always.

Bitter Blood

Faith is accepting what makes no sense, what we cannot prove, but know down deep in our souls is real.

Bumped

Art, in a sense, is life brought to a standstill, rescued from time. The secret of making it is simple: discard everything that is good enough.

Burning the Days: Recollection

Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

The Book Thief

Jenny sensed the energy of the cosmos. It was like a harmonious orchestra vibrating the universe into existence.' Broken Mirror by Oliver Rixon

Broken Mirror: A Psychological Thriller

You might want to lie down," Magnus advised. "I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.

City of Ashes

Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.

Alex Campbell

It was my father who instilled the 'never say no' attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of wonder, always taking us on adventures in the car, never telling us the destination.

Marlee Matlin