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Sense Quotes

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

– Ambrose Bierce

In a sense, there’s a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

– A. E. van Vogt

Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.

– Clay Shirky

There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.

– Bill Pullman

When I was younger, I was chubby. It gave me a terrible sense of self-image, and I guess I carry that around with me still.

– Brandon Flowers

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.

– Antiphanes

After all it was my father who founded the Burmese army and I do have a sense of warmth towards the Burmese army.

– Aung San Suu Kyi

I’m not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

– Branford Marsalis

Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.

– Andrew Eldritch

I mean I wasn’t a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder’s stock.

– Arthur Rock

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

– Anna Jameson

Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever.

– Anne Lamott

So in one sense you don’t have the classic keyboard player in Yes.

– Billy Sherwood

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

– Cesare Pavese

I’m a mongrel in the sense that I’m Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south – all these things are mixed in me.

– Ariel Dorfman

It makes good sense for planners everywhere to provide more facilities in general that are aimed at older folks.

– Chuck Norris

The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person.

– Atom Egoyan

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

– Benjamin Franklin

The only way to survive is to have a sense of humour.

– Bob Newhart

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

– Arthur Conan Doyle

I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn’t raised religiously.

– Amber Tamblyn

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

– Alfred North Whitehead

I’ve spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.

– Ana Castillo

Europe is very critical to the United States in the sense not only do we have a fourth of our exports there, but more importantly, a significant proportion of the foreign affiliate profits in fact, half of U.S. corporations, are in Europe.

– Alan Greenspan

For mine, the villains of the piece were always important. In a traditional sense, that’s always an important role.

– Ben Mendelsohn

Contrary to my image, I do have a sense of humour.

– Andy Murray

With President Obama restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba, the immigration preferential treatment given to Cubans… no longer makes sense.

– Blake Farenthold

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke – and that the joke is oneself.

– Clifton Fadiman

I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.

– Al Sharpton

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one’s faculties slowly dying?

– Arthur Helps

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