Quotes of: Wicked-sense Keyword

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

W. H. Auden

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.

The Hundred Secret Senses

You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes." Do they ever make more sense? "No.

Have a Little Faith: a True Story

Xander could sense more than David's smile. He wished he could be more like that, easygoing. But then, David hadn't seen what Xander had seen.

House of Dark Shadows

The gods hate those who plan badly, and help those with good friends, good swords, and good sense.

Half the World

... a man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse has got a little more sense.

As I Lay Dying

Anna is part of a generation that often seems frozen in place by their unreleting sense of irony. Virtually everything people believe in can be exposed as possessing laughable inconsistencies. And so they laugh. And stand still.

Innocent

In the sense of Lewis, I am a moderately 'good man'". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal

I preferred to think of myself as a cat. If I think of my behavior as cat behavior instead of people behavior, it pretty much always makes sense.

The Kitchen Daughter

Never ignore the feelings that don't seem to make sense.

The Knitting Diaries: The Twenty-First Wish\Coming Unraveled\Home to Summer Island

For those who sense and comprehend, They know that heaven is at hand; The river blue which stream and stream, It has the pictures of my dream.

The Rising Lines of Wonderment: Poetry

Vampires, fey folk, werewolves, Shadowhunters, and demons - these things made sense to Magnus. But the mundane world - it seemed to have no pattern, no form. Their quicksilver politics. Their short lives...

The Runaway Queen

Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself.

Rendezvous with Rama

The house had a name. The Banana House. It was carved onto a piece of sandstone above the front door. It made no sense to anyone.

Saffy's Angel

I feel a deep sense of responsibility when I awaken a submissive. I know the imposters who prowl hoping to pounce on the untried.

Socrates Inspires Cherry to Blossom

You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense.

A Summer to Die

But there remained a reflective solitude behind that laughter, that nagging sense of completion that didn't sit well on the shoulders of a woman who had just begun to open her eyes to the wide world.

Siege of Darkness

Both the thoughts and the senses were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them... from both the secret voices of the innermost truth had to be attentively perceived.

Siddhartha

Social intelligence was therefore always at a high premium. A sharp sense of empathy can make a huge difference, and with it in an ability to manipulate, to gain cooperation, and to deceive.

The social conquest of Earth

Science, enabled by engineering, empowered by NASA, tells us not only that we are in the universe but that the universe is in us. And for me, that sense of belonging elevates, not denigrates, the ego.

Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us

The Secret Garden