#sense

Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks. ↗

— Camilla Belle

#back #came #cute #enough #genius

Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other? ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#common-sense #life #society #life

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#best #best way #divide #into #need

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. ↗

— A. C. Benson

#certain #gather #grow #i #make

What Republicans have done in my view is that they are systematically dismantling a sense of community in America. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#community #dismantling #done #republicans #sense

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#beginning #body #cerebral #condition #image

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#anger #being #every #feeling #good

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#decisions #justice #know #longer #memory

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame. ↗

— Ugo Betti

#anything #express #feel #kind #say

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful. ↗

— Paul Bettany

#any #beautiful #difficulty #like #looking