Quotes of: Senses Keyword

The rain turns lighter, turns to snow. And I have a sense that we have not yet arrived, that we are still reaching. For each other. For who we are meant to be.

Crossed

The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human experience of scale.

Chaos: Making a New Science

But where, says some, is the King of America? I'll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain.

Common Sense

In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion.

Common Sense

There is a fundamental tension between science and freedom - no matter how science is viewed by its practitioners nor how freedom is sensed by those who believe they have it.

The Dosadi Experiment

Life is a very terrible thing, mostly, with points of wonder and beauty. Most of what makes it terrible, though, is simply that there's so much of it, blaring in through the five senses.

Dhalgren

Good God, I have taken leave of my senses. I never thank Delalieu. I've likely given the poor man a heart attack.

Destroy Me

From their perspective, however, torture might make a sort of cockeyed sense if it was ritualistic, part of a ceremony that this fraternity of the demented required of themselves when they murdered one of their own.

Deeply Odd

When it comes to seeing opportunities in the midst of unhopeful situations, the positive brain, (not the pair of eyes) is the sense organ for the sight.

Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")

The Dragon: Fifteen Stories

I think you'll be a great teacher," said Gary. That's his role in my life: blind encourager and ambassador of false senses of security.

Domestic Violets

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

The End of the Affair

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Stop moping, sule," galladon said with a grunt."It doesn't suit you-it takes a fine sense of pessimism to brood with any sort of respectability.

Elantris

There was no logic or any sense of purpose except that I knew I had to do something other than what I was doing, or I might not make it through this.

The Edge of Never

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

The Evolution Of Theology: An Anthropological Study

Soul Mates psychically sense their Exalted Bond through the sweet whispers of their Soul."-Author Serena Jade

Eros and Psyche: An Ancient Soul Mate Story

Sometimes I wake up with such an immense sense of disappointment that I can hardly breathe.

The End of Mr. Y

I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.

Fahrenheit 451

That's why I hate the concept of falling in love. It makes you weak. It takes away your strength. Your power. Your rational sense. EVERYTHING.

Forbidden Apple

But at the bottom of all the gloom, there is a sense that we are responsible for each other -- if not for each other's happiness. There is empathy, admiration, respect for the other's intelligence and honesty.

Fear of Fifty