The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.
When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
Ask me what makes a champion runner, and I will tell you it helps to have the great good sense to choose your parents carefully.
Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.
You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure.
To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.
I would love to do a comedy, but comedy probably in the sense of a dark comedy like 'Californication,' that sort of thing. Yeah, sure, I think I'm funny.
I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense.
Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.
The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.
What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.
Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.
