Make Sense Quotes

839 Make Sense quotes by 695 unique authors

Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either imagination or intuition.… — Edward Kasner
An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started. — Tim O'Reilly
People say to the mentally ill, ‘You know so many people think the world of you.’ But when they don’t like themselves they don’t notice… — Richey Edwards
A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and bear witness to. Truth in… — Vivian Gornick
I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same… — Harrison Salisbury
Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily… — Richard Mitchell
We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense… — John Dufresne
Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history… — Justin Sane
Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic. — Jim Trelease
People think of Jews as the Woody Allen stereotype, the nebbishy kind of thing, but that's not the kind of Jews I know. I know… — Scott Ian
You always ask that. Why. Like there's an answer for everything. Not everybody has your life, you know, or your family. In your life, things… — Rainbow Rowell
People still make New Year's resolutions? Wow. I figured those were pointless once I perfected myself by directing, writing, and acting in Garden State. I… — Zach Braff
I object. I object to any killing at all. You know, it's terrible what happened and I think retaliation definitely makes sense and it's definitely… — Tre Cool
Legalisation doesn't make sense. — Daniel Ortega
With breast cancer, nothing is straightforward. It makes sense for most people to make their dietary decisions based on what it does for heart disease.… — Walter Willett
The generations before you failed. They didn’t stay up all night. They got distracted and lost sight of the fact that life is a miracle… — Paul Hawken
What we need is more money back in the hands of Americans of any economic standing and so raising taxes right now doesnt make sense. — Kevin Yoder
We are here for what amounts to a few/hours,/a day at most./We feel around making sense of the terrain,/our own new limbs,/Bumping up against a… — Tracy K. Smith
Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort of way. No… — Chuck Palahniuk
Priority-wise, it simply makes sense to take care of yourself before you start searching for a higher meaning. You aren't much good to anyone else… — Scott Adams
Like birds landing on a tree top together, and then dispersing, we are together for a very short time, so it makes sense to live… — Bokar Rinpoche
In memory of Emily we would like everyone to go out and do random acts of kindness, random acts of love to your friends or… — Luis Gonzalez
It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and understand everything. The… — Anton Chekhov
Living's heavy work, but off to one side, the way we are, it's useless, too. It don't make sense. If I knowed how to climb… — Natalie Babbitt
Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life,… — Adam Riess

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