Quotes of: Sense-of-humor Keyword

For man, mind is the cause of bondage and mind is the cause of liberation. Mind absorbed in sense objects is the cause of bondage, and mind detached from the sense objects is the cause of liberation.

Bhagavad-Gita As It Is

To accept Jesus is to accept His total authority in your life.

The Big Story: How the Bible Makes Sense out of Life

The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water

Bees: Their Vision, Chemical Senses and Language

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

F. L. Lucas

Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.

Otto Dix

You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

Across the Great Barrier

Far be it from me to ever let my common sense get in the way of my stupidity. I say we press on.

Infinity

What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book?

The Sense of an Ending

Only those who leave home ever really find it.

The Stuff of a Lifetime: Self, Sense, Soul, and Spirit in Human Experience

This [...] isn`t something I actually saw, but what you end up remembering isn`t always the same as what you witnessed.

The Sense of an Ending

...I need to return briefly to a few incidents that have grown into anecdotes, to some approximate memories which time has deformed into certainty.

The Sense of an Ending

You may say, But wasn't this the Sixties? Yes, but only for some people, only in certain parts of the country.

The Sense of an Ending

Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa Fortuna." ["Generally common sense is rare in that (higher) rank."]

Satires, Book I

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Looking Forward

Common sense is a chaotic aggregate of disparate conceptions, and one can find there anything that one like.

Selections from the Prison Notebooks

I sincerely pity the poor man you marry. I doubt he’ll have a moment’s peace.

A Sense of the Ridiculous

We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Das ist eine der anstrengenderen Seiten von Moritz, die er mit dem Alter entwickelt hat - die Mischung aus Perfidie und Sentimentalität.

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

The Sense of Wonder

Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

Patty at Home