Quotes of: Wicked-sense Keyword

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

When night comes on in a room lit by kerosene, any flicker of the flame can give the sense that darkness is about to triumph.

Let Him Go

All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.

To the Lighthouse

There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd.

Levels of Life

The sense of fulfillment is often hidden in acts of kindness

Leading from the Gut: 3 Power Principles of Effective Leaders

I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.

Listen, Little Man!

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

The Library at Night

Preserve a sense of proportion in your attitude to everything that pleases you, and make the most of them while they are at their best.

Letters from a Stoic

I can tell you that the only thing in the world that makes sense to me right now is you and me.

The Lonesome Young

I can tell you that the only ting in the world that makes sense to me right now is you and me.

The Lonesome Young

Freedom from likes and dislikes, the sudden sense of identification, the spirit of comedy.

M: Writings '67-'72

Eyes can't sense a smell of rain before it drops. Mind can't see event of future before it happens.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.

Mockingjay