All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense. – James Tenney
They’ve been fairly positive, as firm as they could be in regards to the derivatives operations in Montreal. We didn’t sense that there was a hesitation about it. But things change. – Jean Charest
There’s a tendency in many politicians to become inward-looking, more protectionist, more nationalistic and more defensive, in the bad sense of the word. – Jose Manuel Barroso
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us. – Madame de Stael
We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. – Karen Armstrong
The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it. – John Owen
Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American. – Leslie Fiedler
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. – John Masefield
That makes no sense for someone to say if they were drafted by their country, that they’d say no. – Mitt Romney
Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense – names of familiar figures around the house. – Jacques Barzun
Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request. – Kit Bond
Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
In a broad systems sense, an organism’s environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself. – Kevin Kelly
Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century. – John McGahern
It doesn’t make sense to argue about how much global warming is caused by man – whether it’s 5 percent or 50 percent. – Lisa Murkowski
The thing I don’t like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it. – Lauren Graham
It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists. – John Yoo
