Top 100 Sense That Quotes
#1. It is the last place heading south before the landscape gets terminally dusty, glum and thinly settled, so it has an oasis or frontier atmosphere and a sense that the cappuccinos are a bit hard-won.
Simon Winder
#2. People say all kinds of things about the ingredients of songs. But you know they are a kind of magic, in the sense that they may easily include a stain on your bedroom wall ... and a variety of mis-recollections. And then you name it after a girl's name that you just made up.
Tom Waits
#3. When do you know it's time to say, 'OK, that's it?' That is the most difficult part of any decision like that because you don't want to throw the 'R' word out there. I've mentioned it a couple times, but not in the sense that I'm doing it. That word is very fragile. We'll see.
Jim Thome
#4. The person that always comes to mind, and it's odd now because we've become pals, is Ben Folds. I've always considered him like a musical older brother, from afar, in the sense that I always felt I had a much better understanding of what he was singing about five years after I was listening to it.
Jason Sudeikis
#5. There is love, there is music, there is no limit, there is work, there is the precious sense that this is the hour of grace when all things gather and distill to create the rest of my life. I don't believe in God, I believe in everything.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
#6. I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays ... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.
Bono
#7. It made no sense that he'd encounter loyalty like this inside Perdition, where the worst of humanity was imprisoned. But maybe there are a few of the best, too.
Ann Aguirre
#8. I wish that we might get back to worship again. Then when people come into the church they will instantly sense that they have come among holy people, God's people. They can testify, 'Of a truth God is in this place'
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#9. I sense that his drowning but I don't have any idea of how to start to put my hand into the water and save him.
Maggie Stiefvater
#10. When I look back, I was so mean to myself, and I was so uncomfortable in my own skin. I still feel that very loudly sometimes, but to try and really nurture that sense that you are your own friend.
Sara Bareilles
#11. A lingering sense that something was very wrong with him. That sense is called shame.
Edward T. Welch
#12. There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society is jeopardizing the planet.
Sam Keen
#13. When things are really desperate and hopeless and you can't do anything about this, and there's a sense that something must be done, that is something usually leads to the U.N.
Kofi Annan
#14. Sad to say, this Islamophilia problem does not occur only at the low-ranking level of Director of the CIA. But at least you've always got the army, haven't you? Surely that is one remaining bastion of common sense that would never bend to such cravenness.
Douglas Murray
#15. Looking at each other, something made sense that hadn't made sense before...I still don't know what it is or was about him, about us together (his pronunciation), that made us bind so decisively, two indecisive people so clear, for a time, about each other.
Catherine Lacey
#16. There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.
Gore Verbinski
#17. If you get caught at some crucial point and somebody tells you that your doctrine doesn't make sense - you're ready for him. You tell him there's something above sense. That here he must not try to think, he must feel. He must believe. Suspend reason and you can play it deuces wild.
Ayn Rand
#18. I'm pro-life, in the sense that chaos seems like life to me and order seems like death.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
#19. Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living a lie.
David Deida
#20. All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you?ve got good enough, solid judgment and common sense, that you?re going to be able to do whatever you want to do with your life.
Barbara Jordan
#21. So often, religion is identified in terms coined by Christianity as sets of belief. But I had the sense that it not only involves practice, but also emotion and levels of our experience that are almost precognitive.
Elaine Pagels
#22. The original Upper Paleolithic people would, if they appeared among us today, be called Caucasoid, in the sense that they lacked the particular traits we associate with Negroid and Mongoloid types.
Raymond Cattell
#23. I had a calling inside of me. I had a sense that when I was going through experiences like living on the streets, losing my parents to AIDS, just having my whole world turned upside-down, there was this feeling inside of me like I was meant for something greater.
Liz Murray
#24. Ideological thinking becomes emancipated from the reality that we perceive with our five senses, and insists on a 'truer' reality concealed behind all perceptible things, dominating them from this place of concealment and requiring a sixth sense that enables us to become aware of it.
Hannah Arendt
#25. For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self.
Stanley Milgram
#26. Most serious plane crashes are survivable. There's a sense that, 'Oh, if we go down, that's it, it's out of my hands.' And that's just statistically not true. I have more optimism and more faith that my own actions can make a difference.
Amanda Ripley
#27. 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
#28. This sense that the world can be reinvented [evokes] the Sixties in this country, those years when no one at all seemed to have any memory or mooring ...
Joan Didion
#29. The experience of seeing differences of dogma made moot in practice by the bonds of family affection and neighborly respect was formative for him. It seemed to leave him with a lasting sense that life was more complicated in practice than in theory - and that this was a good thing.
Yuval Levin
#30. Have you finally grown so jealous of my impeccable fashion sense that you've decided to have me disposed of?
Brandon Sanderson
#31. I wasn't saying that in a sense that I didn't plan on scoring any goals. This won't happen again. It would be nice if it did, but it's reality.
John Madden
#32. The only way I know to pluck from the hearts of enemies their desire to destroy us is to remove from their lives the sense that, for their own physical and spiritual survival, they must.
David James Duncan
#33. People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to make money.
Campbell McGrath
#34. Satan is a tool of God's love in the sense that he forces us to see God's loving patience.
Pat Robertson
#35. [Computer science] is not really about computers and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not about microscopes and Petri dishes ... and geometry isn't really about using surveying instruments.
Hal Abelson
#36. I'm a Jewish boy from Jersey. I was born with a strong sense of right and wrong, and a strong sense that the world can be a ludicrous, unfair, inhumane place.
Barry Sanders
#37. Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
#38. Cause I was such a novice and thank God that Sarah was as seasoned as she was because she was really a great leader in that regard in the sense that she would communicate really well with the crew.
Charisma Carpenter
#39. In Africa there is a concept known as 'ubuntu' - the profound sense that we are human only through the humanity of others; that if we are to accomplish anything in this world it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievement of others.
Nelson Mandela
#40. When I got injured, I think I was starting to sense that there was more to the world than just sports. This dream of playing professional soccer probably wasn't the best track for me.
Eric Swalwell
#41. In Maine, there is a deeply ingrained sense that you can always get a little more use out of something.
Tim Sample
#42. We ought to be doing that with decent standard housing but if we have people who are absolutely on the streets in this case, I think it makes sense that tent cities are preferred to not having tent cities.
Mike Lowry
#43. Trust is always a factor. You've just got to look at the big picture, and you've got to look at the small picture - the small picture in the sense that you've got to make every scene work and you've got to deal with what people are presenting you with, too.
Willem Dafoe
#44. Nal had begun to sense that his life had jumped the rails - and then right at his nadir, he'd agreed to an "avant" haircut performed by Cousin Steve.
Karen Russell
#45. I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips.
Fred Saberhagen
#46. All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.
August Wilson
#47. Being 21 years old is not easy in the sense that you're still trying to get to know yourself.
Rhianna Pratchett
#48. We have the media, which is such a waste in the sense that you can actually feel your IQ get lower as you watch TV.
Michio Kaku
#49. Virtue . . . is nearly connected with the heart: I have called it Beneficence; not in the very limited sense that is generally given to the term, but to specify thereby all the actions that emanate from active goodness.
Germaine De Stael
#50. There are benefits in the sense that there's still a certain level of confidence. But there are liabilities because you can coordinate and manipulate better as the instruments of oversight are more under your control. You don't have so many rogue operations.
Ted Gup
#51. No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.
Chuck Eddy
#52. Surrealism! What is Surrealism? In my opinion, it is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of the subject but in a very particular sense, that of the strange and illogical.
Paul Delvaux
#53. She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren't the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told.
Caleb Carr
#54. It bothers me that so many lack common sense, that their opinions can be so biased and backward, so utterly frustrating,misguided,misinformed and dangerous that I can't stand to listen to them.
Cecelia Ahern
#55. Progressive sanctification is not a partnership with the Spirit in the sense that we each - the believer and the Holy Spirit - do our respective tasks. Rather, we work as He enables us to work. His work lies behind all our work and makes our work possible.
Jerry Bridges
#57. I don't get a sense that Cheers is revered the way it should be by [younger viewers]. In my mind, it's a show that should always, always, always be in the pantheon. But can it ever mean to future generations what it meant to us?
Ted Danson
#58. The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a powerful sense that reason could be employed to make the world a better place.
John Mearsheimer
#59. Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.
Steve Coogan
#60. Constancy is my true nature! I shall never look at another woman for the rest of my days, or rather, I shall look, but they shall be to me like chairs, or tables. Not that I intend to sit, of course, or eat off them, but in the sense that they are but furniture.
Anne Fortier
#61. No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.
Virginia Woolf
#62. My process seems to be unusual in the sense that I don't create worlds before characters. With me, character is king.
Ann Aguirre
#63. Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didn't.
Sarah McLachlan
#64. I think that nothing is so important for freedom as recognizing in the law each individual's natural right to property, and giving individuals a sense that they own something that they're responsible for, that they have control over, and that they can dispose of.
Milton Friedman
#65. Home, to many of the people I interviewed, is a good, comfortable feeling about the place where they live, and a sense that their place is going to be theirs for a while....Home is any place, any experience that feeds his soul "in some positive way".
Bella DePaulo
#66. There's no sense that you're there forever. No parent is there forever.
Anthony Quinn
#67. We must fundamentally restructure our student loan program. It makes no sense that students and their parents are forced to pay interest rates for higher education loans that are much higher than they pay for car loans or housing mortgages.
Bernie Sanders
#68. I'm a Catholic, and I have always been fascinated by not just my religion, but religion in general, in the sense that it is the ultimate brand that they're trying to sell. Whereas Ford is trying to sell cars, the Vatican is trying to sell salvation, which is a much better product to be peddling.
Tom Fontana
#69. I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
Adam McKay
#70. Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted to absorb needed, beneficial compounds from complex plants and ignore the rest.
Andrew Weil
#71. There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.
Hillary Clinton
#72. Every book I think will be my last one because after finishing I have the sense that I've said all I have to say, but I always seem to find a new way of repeating myself.
Gustavo Perez Firmat
#73. When I broke my arm, I knew there was something a lot bigger than baseball (about to happen) ... I had a sense that God had something for me, something bigger than baseball.
Dave Dravecky
#74. The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.
Louis Kahn
#75. I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.
Naguib Mahfouz
#76. Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
Peter De Vries
#77. Playboy is very easy to work with in the sense that you tell them what you don't want to do-that you don't want to show full breasts or whatever-and there are no arguments about it.
Shannen Doherty
#78. I'm spoiled in the sense that now I get what I want but it's because I work for it.
Selena
#79. If you can convince me that we are one in this sense, that you are my father, and I your son; and also that I am your father, and you my son, then I can believe in the trinity.
Joseph Bates
#80. I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.
Darren Criss
#81. The creeping sense that he might have seen him reading the book came up from the ground, but that was more anxiety than evidence.
Natasha Pulley
#82. I'm a good Catholic girl in the way that Madonna is. In the sense that I'm not that good at all.
Heather Graham
#83. To read Wilson.. is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated.
James Atlas
#84. Galactica has infinite possibilities. In fact, my character may be abnormal in the sense that she may be more independent than most of the women in classic space adventures.
Maren Jensen
#85. There was also a sense that if he [Obama] did not win in Iowa, that it was very unlikely that he would be able to come back and win the Democratic nomination and win the general election. It was sort of an all-or-nothing bet. The stakes were that high.
Josh Earnest
#86. The kids now are more productive than we ever were; they're a lot more prolific and productive in the sense that they have to have music out all the time.
Brother Ali
#87. So he grew up not only with a sense of having once been abandoned, but also with a sense that he was special. In his own mind, that was more important in the formation of his personality.
Walter Isaacson
#88. I don't relax. I can't take vacations. I'm obsessive-compulsive, and I worry with every project that I'm going to fail. When it starts to go well, and I sense that something beautiful and important and meaningful is being created, it's a fantastic feeling, and I find it very hard to stop.
Mary Ellen Mark
#89. So in a sense, that little war in the Levant had a horrendous effect in terms of the stability of countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, over the long term. Because once again, it proved to Muslims that their governments couldn't protect them and would side with the enemy.
Michael Scheuer
#90. The fact that the human act is self-directed or built up means in no sense that the actor necessarily exercises excellence in its construction. Indeed, he may do a very poor job in constructing his act.
Herbert Blumer
#91. Among the blessings of love there is hardly one more exquisite than the sense that in uniting the beloved life to ours we can watch over its happiness, bring comfort where hardship was, and over memories of privation and suffering open the sweetest fountains of joy.
George Eliot
#92. Naturalism, therefore, can never be anything more than a guiding prejudice, an established principle only in the sense that it must be indefensibly presumed for the sake of some larger view of reality;
David Bentley Hart
#93. The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all the other great evils: racism, sexism, homophobia, violence against gay people and against women.
Anna Quindlen
#94. If only we would wake from (these) states of oblivion with some certain sense that there was no mystery to life at all, that cruelty was purely impersonal, but we don't.
Anne Rice
#95. I remember thinking, 'Sometimes you're riding high in April and shot down in June, but at least we have each other.' We were full of enthusiasm and color, and you could sense that something was brewing that could be amazing, but we weren't quite there yet.
Anthony Kiedis
#96. Most actors I know come from a screwed up background, so it makes sense that if you can walk on to a space and recreate your reality, then that's the place that will become very dear.
Peter Mullan
#97. Why would our brains have this capacity to sense the oneness of the universe, a sense that can be induced in many ways, even technological, if that capacity did not reflect an external reality?
Kara Dalkey
#98. I happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts, and the relationship of the parts, and things like ratios and the speeds of particular objects.
Arthur Ganson
#99. The bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal,and things unseen are eternal.
Helen Keller
#100. Nor are we the culmination of evolution, except in the sense that there has never been another species so bizarrely ingenious that it could create both iambic pentameter and plutonium.
David Quammen
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