#sense

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. ↗

— Euripides

#fool #foolish #sense #talk #you

Historically, royal families have represented an institution. The institution is built on heritage, and is timeless in that sense. ↗

— Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark

#families #heritage #historically #institution #represented

I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#case #having #history #i #looking

In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#because #coal #i #involved #knew

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#bring #committee #common #common sense #diplomatic

If my senses don't feel right then I don't do it. ↗

— Melanie Brown

#i #right #senses #then

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect. ↗

— Sissela Bok

#both #breathing #burden #childhood #confers

The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them. ↗

— Ato Boldon

#few #first #football #football players #foreign

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders. ↗

— Brian Eno

#could #first #got #heard #i

Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it. ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#humor #just #lot #love #men