Top 98 Does It Make Sense Quotes
#1. Does it make sense to choose the wrong Opportunity just to convince yourself that you would have chosen the right one - had you had the Opportunity? I
Umberto Eco
#2. Where is the stretch? Where is the perfect fit? Where does it make sense? You have to be a Baryshnikov.
Marcus Samuelsson
#3. Most of the things I do brand wise are both missionary and mercenary in their position, and that's really important to me; that's one of the first things I look at when I say, 'does it make sense to do a deal?'
Mike Rowe
#4. Does it make sense for the U.S. to expend hundreds of billions of dollars to mount a new Apollo-style program to return to the moon? Or have we blazed that trail? Shouldn't we help other nations achieve this goal with their own resources but with our help?
Buzz Aldrin
#5. Only as long as we believe in our own identity over time does it make sense for us to make future plans, avoid risks, and treat our fellow human beings fairly - for the consequences of our actions will, in the end, always concern ourselves.
Thomas Metzinger
#6. The heart set to do the Father's will need never fear defeat. His promises of guidance may be fully counted upon. Does it make sense to believe that the Shepherd would care less about getting His sheep where He wants them to go than they care about getting there?
Elisabeth Elliot
#7. No longer does it make sense for an inventor to ask himself, "Can I make a better mousetrap?" because the threat is greater that the government might ban his mousetrap, however safe and efficient it is.
Thomas E. Woods Jr.
#8. Does it make sense to lose out on love because you're trying to protect yourself from something that might never happen? It's called risk, and you can't have a full life without it.
Tonya Lampley
#9. How does it make sense to remove an option, to tell your enemy before you go into a conflict, that you will not exercise whatever options are necessary in order to achieve victory?
John McCain
#10. It's always a tough call deciding whether, as a scientist, you should argue publicly with the creationists. It's a dilemma that I encounter frequently in another subject area: Does it make sense to bandy words with someone from the UFO community?
Seth Shostak
#11. The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".
Friedrich Nietzsche
#12. As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.
Beth Ditto
#13. So you decided to help us by killing the guy we were talking to?" Clary demanded "Because you thought he had a shady past? Who- who does that? It doesnt make any sense.
Cassandra Clare
#14. With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that ... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
Rafael Palmeiro
#15. The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with the knowledge that the loss was futile and unnecessary.
Chris Hedges
#16. Seventy-two virgins - does that make sense to anyone? And it's an ancient religion, maybe it was misinterpreted? Maybe it's not 72 virgins, maybe it's a 7-foot-2 Persian.
Greg Giraldo
#17. But ... that doesn't make any sense ... !'
'It does if you're a goat.
Linda Medley
#18. I've read the 'Book of Revelation' a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded.
Megan Fox
#19. You amaze me," he said then, reaching out to lay the toy on her pillow. That wasn't where he had gotten it from. "You bring a toy to do a man's job, knowing the man is more than willing to provide the service. Where does that make sense, Chay?
Lora Leigh
#20. Does it make more sense to provide air conditioning or to limit CO2 emissions. I vote for more air conditioning in these susceptible regions.
Judith Curry
#21. Yo QT. r u there? I dart Kika a glance. "What does that mean? He called me a Q-tip?" Kika laughs and sits next to me. "Read it out loud. It will make more sense." "Yo-Q-T ru there. Q ... T ... ?" "Q
Anne Eliot
#22. Its funny how something so scary and foreign can grow to feel so amazing. Think about you, loving you the way that I do, it used to be terrifying but now its almost liberating in a way. Does that make any sense?
Lydia Kelly
#23. It may not make sense to you, now, but when you get older you'll understand that sometimes things have to be done. Hard things. But everyone will hate the person who finally does them. But if they do them anyway, that's the mark of true honor.
Rhiannon Held Silver
#24. It does not make sense that everybody should duplicate efforts when we could be working together.
Theresa May
#25. We know that children with autism like order, that they are often very visual and that they can be quite literal. They deserve beautiful resources and symbols that make sense. If a picture does not explain visually, it is pointless and the child will stop looking to the pictures for information.
Adele Devine
#26. I would categorically not rule out that it's not the last season of Community. Does that make sense? I would love nothing more than for Community to have a following on Friday, and to be able to continue it.
Robert Greenblatt
#27. If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#28. It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.
Elmore Leonard
#29. Why didn't you kill me like you did that guy back there? Billy? Or does it even make any sense to ask? Are you beyond why?'
Oh shit, we're all beyond why, you know that.
Stephen King
#30. Does this rationale make sense to you? (Syd)
That's Jack-Logic. It makes total sense. (Steele)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#31. Today everything is so complex as to be incomprehensible. What sense does it make for men to walk on the moon while other men are waiting on welfare lines, or in Vietnam killing and dying for a corrupt dictatorship in the name of freedom?
Saul D. Alinsky
#32. I wish to make it clear that 'history' in the sense in which most people speak of it simply does not exist; and this is at least one reason why I say that it has no meaning.
Karl R. Popper
#33. All sin is ultimately irrational. Though people persuade themselves that they have good reasons for sinning, when examined in the cold light of truth on the last day, it will be seen in every case that sin ultimately just does not make sense." Wayne g
Wayne A. Grudem
#35. It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when you're young and shy, making people laugh is a good way to make friends. It's an instant connection.
Paul Merton
#36. Every so often I'll go back down to earth and I'll make reference to a phone or a house or something, something that's a bit more real. But I suppose what that does, is it puts you in a surreal place but also my music doesn't get too carried away in that sense, which I quite like.
Ellie Goulding
#37. What happens with experiences that really move us deeply, that really effect us? They make the world new again. What it does is it heightens our sense of mortality.
Bill Henson
#38. I knew I could do it all this time," said Harry, "Because I'd already done it ... does that make sense?
J.K. Rowling
#39. It does not make sense to say you love kids when you hate to have one .
Wordfaith3
#40. I don't know why, precisely. I believe we were in need of a change. We needed to do things for ourselves. Does that make any sense? To break your own ground and know it's yours, free and clear. Nothing taken for granted.
Eowyn Ivey
#41. Our sole purpose on this earth is to add value to others. It doesn't make sense to just exist in people's lives or to be a drain on them, does it?
Rob Liano
#42. Good health makes a lot of sense, but it does not make a lot of dollars.
Andrew Saul
#43. It does not make sense that we are allowing known potential weapons, not unlike those the 9-11 hijackers used to overcome the crews of four airplanes, to be taken aboard passenger aircraft.
Dave Reichert
#44. With someone you like that much, the lows are as low as the highs are high. Does that make sense?'
It does. It also makes me sound bipolar.'
Love will do that to a person.
Simone Elkeles
#45. It bears repeating a third time: Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humour does.
David Rakoff
#46. Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.
Wendell Berry
#47. Because everything does make sense, when you look at it from the right angle. All you have to do is find out what that angle is, for whatever it is you want to understand, and bang, the universe becomes a rational place.
Susanna Kearsley
#48. Listen, whatever you decide to do will be the right thing," Lauren said. "How do you know?" "Because if it wasn't the right thing, then you wouldn't choose to do it." "That doesn't make any sense," Isabella said. "Or does it make perfect sense?" Lauren asked.
Anonymous
#49. I like that feeling of discombobulation that comes in creating an absurd world that doesn't make sense. 'Monty Python' does a good job of it; 'Bugs Bunny,' too.
Reggie Watts
#50. Doesn't make much sense, does it? I mean, no one's actually blowing anything.
Shukyou
#51. She pulled away. "That doesn't make any sense."
"Neither does this," he said, "but I don't care. I'm sick of trying to pretend I can live without you. Don't you understand that? Can't you see it's killing me?
Cassandra Clare
#52. As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.
Madeleine L'Engle
#53. If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.
Seth Godin
#54. I don't know how to say it exactly. Only ... I want to die as myself. Does that make any sense?' he asks. I shake my head. How could he die as anyone but himself. 'I don't want them to change me in there. Turn me into some kind of monster that I'm not.
Suzanne Collins
#55. I don't think that you should tell me that you love me wildly, passionately, devotedly, hopelessly. Hopelessly doesn't seem to make much sense, does it?
Oscar Wilde
#56. That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what ego does. It keeps you feeling separate, keeps you with a sense of duality, tries to convince you that you're flawed and broken and alone instead of whole.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#57. It does not make sense. It cannot exist. It's impossible, and if it isn't impossible, it's irrelevant, and if it isn't either of those things, it's embarrassing.
Philip Pullman
#58. How does it happen that something that makes so much sense in the moonlight doesn't make any sense at all in the sunlight?
Lana Turner
#59. I think there are two types of photographers, those who want to document the world and those who want to create their own world. I am more interested in documenting the world and presenting it to people with the question attached, 'Does this make any sense to you?'
Moby
#60. Today's Valentine's Day. There's a whole day devoted solely to love. Does that make any sense? Nah. Love makes us all crazy. But it's fun too.
Lisa Greenwald
#61. At a time of record energy prices, when we are trying to break the very addiction the president talked about in his speech, it does not make any sense to cut funding for energy efficiency programs and research.
Bob Menendez
#62. Don't look so stiff and concerned, bucko. Word from the wise, sometimes there's no better place to hide than in the open, and no better way to disappear than to stand out."
"That doesn't make any sense."
"Sure it does. Hogan wrote it years and years ago - you do know who Hogan is right?
Gillian Bronte Adams
#63. True merit does not depend on the times or on fashion. Those who have no other advantage than courtly manners lose it when they are away from court. But good sense, knowledge, and wisdom make their possessors knowledgeable and beloved in all ages and in all times.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#64. Does it make any sense at all that the chair of a national party would want fewer voters to see our candidates?
Hillary Clinton
#65. That makes sense," Adrian said
"It does?"
He glanced at me, a flicker of amusement in his eyes. "Yes, little dhampire. Sometimes you make sense. Go on.
Richelle Mead
#66. I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense.
Kevin McDonald
#67. Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.
Eric Idle
#68. Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Christian Slater
#69. Grace does not make sense. It's not supposed to make sense. Grace cannot be calculated or formulated, earned or even rewarded for a job well done. Grace is a gift, not a salary.
Michelle DeRusha
#70. Craziest thing I ever did for love? It's all crazy. None of it makes any sense, does it, when you're in love with someone. It doesn't make any logical sense. I guess that's why they call it being in love.
Vince Vaughn
#71. Sometimes a story does not make immediate sense - one has to listen and keep it in one's heart, in one's blood, until the day it will become useful. The
Ishmael Beah
#72. It didn't make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man what don't deserve them, while letting some of the biggest jackasses and scoundrels alive waltz their way through long, untroubled existences.
Caleb Carr
#73. It doesn't seem to make any sense, but then it never does! It's usually only afterwards when the pieces finally fit together, that you're left standing there thinking how obvious it always was. (Aztar)
Michelle Frost
#74. The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.
Barack Obama
#75. I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does.
Stephen Sondheim
#76. I totally believe that art is an open dialogue and that it is not logical. It does not always make sense.
Lynda Benglis
#77. The collisions happen 40 yards down the field, so if you take off from 5 yards or 10, it does not even matter. Do I make sense? I mean, come on.
Will Muschamp
#78. God knows better than we do. He always does. Even when it doesn't make sense.
Karen Kingsbury
#79. Discipline is to present us before grace, it does not produce grace to make sense.
Richard J. Foster
#80. At night my mind does not much care if what it thinks is here or there. It tells me stories, it invents and makes up things that don't make sense. I do not know why it does this stuff. The real world seems quite weird enough.
Shel Silverstein
#81. When everyone thinks something is true, it does not make it anything more than effective marketing.
Clifton Hill
#82. I like causing trouble. It's the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff. Does that make sense?
Michael Gambon
#83. It frankly does not make sense to occasionally 'fill up' with water, with long periods of dehydration in between. The same thing is true spiritually. Spiritual thirst is a need for living water. A constant flow of living water is far superior to sporadic sipping.
David A. Bednar
#84. What we know about diets hasn't changed. It still makes sense to eat lots of fruits and vegetables, balance calories from other foods, and keep calories under control. That, however, does not make front-page news.
Marion Nestle
#85. And - maybe it's ridiculous to go on in this vein, although it doesn't matter since no one's ever going to see this - but does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest
Donna Tartt
#86. I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?
Walter Annenberg
#87. You've gotta do what you like to do. If you do things you don't like to do, what sense does it make?
Burt Shavitz
#88. It's one thing to tolerate a boring marriage; a boring affair does not make sense.
Jane Wagner
#89. It does make sense to put on some songs that are relatively short, because radio usually only plays songs that are less than 4 or 5 minutes.
Mike Gordon
#90. It's really make sense when it's does not make sense
Sarajevo Sara
#91. Some of the most rewarding scientific pursuits begin with the discovery of a paradox. Nature does not go out of its way to befuddle us, and if some phenomenon seems to make no sense no matter how we look at it, we are probably in ignorance of deep and far-ranging principles.
Steven Pinker
#92. On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it?
Sharon Tate
#93. With breast cancer, nothing is straightforward. It makes sense for most people to make their dietary decisions based on what it does for heart disease. That's where the data are most strong.
Walter Willett
#94. For both of us, it had simply been too enormous an experience. We shared it by not talking about it. Does this make any sense?
Haruki Murakami
#95. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Joseph Heller
#96. It's unfair of me to tell anyone what to think. I make myself for myself to get out my own desire to create and make sense of things in life. Hopefully, it does the same for others.
Hoodie Allen
#97. A failure to understand something does not mean it is irrational. It may simply mean that it lies on the far side of our limited abilities to take things in and make complete sense of them.
Alister E. McGrath
#98. It is essential to learn to enjoy life. It really does not make sense to go through the motions of existence if one does not appreciate as much of it as possible.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
