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Sense Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
- The humming of my parents' voices from behind my bedroom wall, which throughout my childhood had filled me with a sense of security, had now…
- But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival…
- Depending on the year or the therapist he was seeing, he'd learned to ascribe just about every facet of his character as a psychological reaction…
- We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it--that makes no sense. What…
- At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal,…
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- 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