#sense

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense. ↗

— James Thurber

#sense #sufficient #wise #word

What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#annihilate #been #capacity #colored #common

The fragrance of white tea is the feeling of existing in the mists that float over waters; the scent of peony is the scent of the absence of negativity: a lack of confusion, doubt, and darkness; to smell a rose is to teach your soul to skip; a nut and a wood together is a walk over fallen Autumn leaves; the touch of jasmine is a night's dream under the nomad's moon. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#fragrance #olfactory #perfumes #scent #senses

I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives. ↗

— Dean Ornish

#medicine #sense #vegetarian #diet

The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#how #humor #i #jobs #know

I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city. ↗

— George Mason

#city #etiquette #fashionable #grow #heartily

I'm actually not a huge circus fan in the traditional sense, but I like a lot of the circus trappings of striped tents and caramel. I lean more towards Cirque du Soleil than Barnum and Bailey. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#bailey #circus #fan #huge #i

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#affairs #awareness #everyday #important #intellectual

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#nonsense #sense

I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#disability #educate #i #people #sense