Quotes of: Senses Keyword

You wearing a thigh sheath?” “Now what would be the sense of wearing just one? I have two thighs.

Armed & Magical

Mortals are odd creatures in that sense—flawed yet hopeful. One can study them through millennia and still get nowhere near full understanding of their nature.

Arabesque

Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.

Annie, Between the States

When God saw fit to bestow such a gift, a man with any sense didn’t ask questions.

Annie's Song

I grin at the fierce burn in my legs, in my chest.Using pain to relieve pain. It doesn't make much sense.

Insurgent

The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.

The Just and the Unjust

Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.

Killosophy

There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave.

Rights of Man

A sharp decline in actual deprivation may, paradoxically, have been accompanied by an ongoing and even escalating sense of fear of deprivation.

Status Anxiety

To Him who has sense, a sign is enough For the heedless, however, a thousand expositions are not enough.

Sufi Thought and Action

So little I know in my innocence. Ideals, like pebbles in a stream wash away, wash away. Life makes no sense.

Secrets

the bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal,and things unseen are eternal.

The Story of My Life

By the standards of magical society they’d fallen at the first hurdle: they hadn’t had the basic good sense to keep their shit to themselves.

The Magicians

True wisdom is marked by willingness to listen and a sense of knowing when to yield.

Moments of Grace for a Woman's Heart

The letters released something, maybe a sense that he was not alone, that the world was a place where travelers in language could know the same things.

Mao II

But what I did sense was an emptiness like a black hole inside of him, and there was no predicting what might emerge from a place like that.

In the Miso Soup

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.

Maskerade

I have a chip on my shoulder. It's a nacho, not a sense of bitterness.

The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You

He [Muffat] experienced a sense of pleasure mingled with remorse, the sort of pleasure peculiar to those Catholics whom the fear of hell spurs on to commit sin.

Nana

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

A Natural History of the Senses

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina