#sense

Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like. ↗

— Tony Hillerman

#although #been #boat #feel #get

It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner. ↗

— Gregory Hines

#decide #films #get #i #jail

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#attempt #believing #care #cosmology #cultural

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#humor #i #possible #sense #sense of humor

I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#been #being #i #i do #issues

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#any #intention #purpose #senseless #useless

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#desire #fear #here #itself #life

Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different. ↗

— David Hockney

#bit #channels #collage #different #everyone

Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#authority #christ #civil #derive #divine

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#evil #often #power #promise #sense