Making Sense Of The World Quotes

#1. I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.

Andrea Arnold

#2. Words are blunt instruments, better suited to murder than to making sense of the world.

Mark Lawrence

#3. One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around us as well as the making of worlds.

Jimenez Lai

#4. This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

R.A. Salvatore

#5. I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposing order on it.

Alexander McCall Smith

#6. Discovering the threads that constitute actual interactions is an essential means of making sense of the world. But perception of overall patterns of things that are contextually related is equally important.

Richard J. Borden

#7. There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world.

Malcolm Gladwell

#8. When you just get fantasy stories that are about fairies or goblins, I just don't care. I'm never going to meet a goblin, it doesn't mean anything to me. So my definition of fantasy is very broad, it's anything to do with memory, or dreams, or ways of interpreting or making sense of the world.

Dave McKean

#9. How many times have I asked myself: when is the world going to start making sense? Yet the answer is out there. It is rushing towards me over the uneven ground.

Martin Amis

#10. He shut off the mower when he saw them - and scowled.
Mira hoped that wasn't Viv. But on the bright side: someone else was unhappy to see Blue and Freddie. The world was already making more sense.

Sarah Cross

#11. I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world, really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else.

Ellie Goulding

#12. If your job is not making a difference in this world, by all means, get out there and find something else ... You'll find a sense of making a difference through your work if you simply look for it.

John C. Maxwell

#13. The world, more suffering than sinning, turns toward Pope Francis as in a conversation people turn to the person who is making sense of things.

Eugene Kennedy

#14. I look at my grandparents and what they dealt with in the Japanese internment in Arizona. That sense of perseverance, of making the best out of an incredibly bad situation, has always been something I drew inspiration from. I always ask myself, 'What in the world do I have to complain about?'

Scott Fujita

#15. To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.

Criss Jami

#16. The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense?

David Mitchell

#17. Sometimes life just did things, he felt, and they didn't have to make sense. It helped when they did, and often the sense of a thing was just around a corner, but that didn't mean you ever got to see it.

Adam P. Knave

#18. She took me in when I was lost. When the world stopped making sense.

Blake Crouch

#19. You cannot hinder someone's free will, that's the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#20. How is it that the strange idea of making the law produce what it does not contain - prosperity, in a positive sense, wealth, science, religion - should ever have gained ground in the political world?

Frederic Bastiat

#21. Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light.

Tim Weiner

#22. I don't think too much about how it might exist in the world in a commercial sense - I more just try and focus on making music that I love and trying to put it out into the world.

Moby

#23. You'd be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.

Dianna Hardy

#24. I don't know who explained this rule to me; maybe it was the product of my own speculations and fantasies. That would have been typical: I was always inventing stories and machinations to make sense of things I didn't understand, and I understood almost nothing.

Cesar Aira

#25. I seem to have to lost confidence in just about everything else. I've come to believe that only a very, very few matters in the world can ever be trusted to make sense.

Richard Yates

#26. The motivations of a scientist are always mixed and complex ... every medical student has the desire to do good in the world. Making a small contribution to that effort is really in a sense the last significant thing that I want to do with my life.

Gustav Nossal

#27. When I was making 'Star Wars,' I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, 'I'm going to create a world that's fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.'

George Lucas

#28. A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

Rollo May

#29. Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.

David Christian

#30. In a world that has lost a sense of sin, one sin remains: Thou shalt not make people feel guilty (except, of course, about making people feel guilty). In other words, the only sin today is to call something a sin.

Christopher West

#31. I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

John Sladek

#32. The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.

Natasha Trethewey

#33. The enterprise of making sense of the material world turns on a key question: what happens when something observed in nature doesn't fit within the established framework of existing human knowledge?

Thomas Levenson

#34. The TV was a rage-making machine, working at him all the time, giving him direction and scope, enlarging him in a sense, filling him with a world rage, a great stalking soreness and rancour.

Don DeLillo

#35. Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#36. Something but not nothing because nothing is an infinite possibility.

Kyle Kipple

#37. She was just waking up, and if he could have a hand in making sure that the world she woke up to was a good one, a decent place where things made sense ... He had to.

Kit Rocha