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Sense Quotes by Don DeLillo
- People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm,…
- There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
- America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is…
- If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy…
- I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.
- No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know…
- He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that…
- If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that…
- Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything…
- Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
- Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web. There is a…
More Sense Quotes
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden