Sensibility Quotes · Page 4

Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.

— Zephyr Teachout

It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility

— George Santayana

I like bringing my poet brain and sensibility to lyrics I write.

— Jamila Woods

“I wanted to get the tears out of the way so I could act sensibly.”

— Joan Didion

The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting…

— George Howe Colt

“most reviews are written by morons about morons. sensibility is at a premium in american culture these days.”

— Jim Dodge

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.

— Thomas Jefferson

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Ingres was one of those artists to whom the outline was something sacred and magical, and the reason is that it was…

— Kenneth Clark

My first experience with music was my father, he was a stereo buff and he built his own little Hi-Fi center with…

— Ronnie Montrose

The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the…

— William Gilmore Simms

I think people can at least appreciate the sensibility behind the position I have. It is not a pro-marijuana position. It is…

— Jared Huffman

I don't believe artists should be subjected to experiences that harden the sensibilities; without sensibility no fine work can ever be done.

— Janet Scudder

While Socrates empties the cup of poison with unshaken soul,Christ exclaims,'If it is possible, let this cup pass from me'.Christ in this…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there's the reality: there's…

— Seamus Heaney

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea…

— Richard Powers

Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it…

— William James

“In retrospect, the saddest moment of one’s life would seem to be that in which one first became aware that sensibility must…

— Frank O'Hara

Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near…

— Louis Kronenberger

I regard photography and film simply as new technical means which painters must absolutely make use of, just as from time out…

— Kazimir Malevich

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of…

— Henri Matisse

Experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It…

— Aldous Huxley

I know I have a signature. I know theres a New England sensibility. I know theres a cowboy sensibility. I think theres…

— Ralph Lauren

When I do operas, I'm not really singing very classically. I have a classical background as far as being a pianist and…

— Jason Graae

Those peculiar social sensibilities nourished by our own peculiar political principles, while they enhancethe true dignity of a prosperous American, do but…

— Herman Melville

Being a father is the hardest job on the planet, because we don't have parental instincts like women have. You have to…

— Malik Yusef

I think seeing is about truly looking, observing, and taking things in with an open mind. It's easy to see things at…

— Chloe Wise

In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might…

— Anonymous

I will not call myself a pacifist for the very simple reason that if something like a [Francisco] Franco should arise in…

— Murray Bookchin

“I once knew a weak woman of fashion, who was more than commonly proud of her delicacy and sensibility. She thought a…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

I think casting is really important. Finding the right sensibility for the right part is an art in itself. If you're off…

— Richard Linklater

A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps.

— Carolina Herrera

Very handsome women have usually far less sensibility to compliments than their less beautiful sisters.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn't true.

— Jill Abramson

The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.

— Thomas Carlyle

I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

— George Eliot

The sensibilities and the emotions of Muslims must be taken into consideration in the context in which we live today.

— Anjem Choudary

No, the seventies was a totally different sensibility and that allowed us to break new ground as a cop show.

— Anonymous