Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. – Mahatma Gandhi
The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word. – J. Irwin Miller
There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense. – John Buchanan Robinson
There’s always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh. – Lupita Nyong’o
Nikola Tesla, one of Colorado’s famous residents, always believed that the gasoline engine made no sense. – Kimbal Musk
The legitimacy of coercive acts in a democracy arises from the process by which they are justified and by the degree to which we regard decisions as rational. If the justifications proceed properly, through recognized public institutions, and if they make sense to us, they are legitimate. – Michael Ignatieff
The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it. – Marie Curie
I can’t explain it, but spiritually it makes sense – though I don’t understand how it does make sense. – Kevin McDonald
The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they’d fallen compared with the West. – John Keegan
My sense is that the majority of Conservatives share my reservations about how we got into Iraq. – Kenneth Clarke
Epistemology has always been affected by technologies like the telescope and the microscope, things that have created a radical shift in how we sense physical reality. – Ken Goldberg
In a sense I’ve made the same film over and over again. In all of them I’ve asked, ‘Who are we as Americans? – Ken Burns
Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created. – Joan Halifax
I grew up very strongly with this sense of time being circular: that it constantly returned upon itself. – Richard Flanagan
Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls. – Rita Levi-Montalcini
We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance – or, sadly, degrade – this innate moral sense. – Paul Bloom
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. – Robert Jarvik