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Sense Quotes (page 42)

John Lennon quote: "paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness"
paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness John Lennon
Audre Lorde quote: "The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of..."
The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings. Audre Lorde
Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable, determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place. Frances Hodgson Burnett
James Cameron quote: "When the ship docks, I'm getting off with you. This is crazy...."
When the ship docks, I'm getting off with you. This is crazy. I know it doesn't make any sense, that's why I trust it. James Cameron
Joseph Ratzinger quote: "a spiritual desert is spreading - an interior emptiness, an..."
a spiritual desert is spreading - an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair. Joseph Ratzinger
Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit. Paramahansa Yogananda
It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible, ... They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated. Bjork
Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition which is always appropriate to a life that is lived aright. Karl Rahner
taking her hand he led her out into a broad stretch of hard sandy soil that the moon flooded with great splendor. They floated out like drifting moths under the rich hazy light, and as the fantastic symphony wept and exulted and wavered and despaired, Ardita's last sense of reality dropped away, and she abandonded her imagination to the dreamy summer scents of tropial flowers and the infinite starry spaces overhead, feeling that if she opened her eyes it would be to find herself dancing with... F. Scott Fitzgerald
...the student of prehistoric man...cannot reject [the Castenedolo skull] as false without doing injury to his sense of truth, and he cannot accept it as fact without shattering his accepted beliefs. Arthur Keith
It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand. Madeleine L'Engle
...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto -- and they suffered the loss of nature like a phantom-limb pain, an amputation that scrambled the body's rhythms, starved the senses, and made basic ideas about the world impossible for children to fathom. Diane Ackerman
Ian Mcewan quote: "That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is..."
That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed. Ian Mcewan
Tom Stoppard quote: "A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man..."
A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself. Tom Stoppard
Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them something that will truly be worth seeing, she feels as if her feet are not on cement at all but on ice. The blade of the skate floats, she knows, on a thin film of water, which it melts by pressure and which freezes behind it. This is the freedom of the present tense, this sliding edge. Margaret Atwood

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