#sense

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#another #being #bottom #crisis #easy

I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that. ↗

— Deborah Norville

#better #focused #focusing #goes #i

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#business #direction #having #instincts #involved

I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#conservative #conventional #i #i think #libertarian

My family restores my sense of ease and keeps me balanced. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#ease #family #keeps #me #restores

I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It's a very special thing. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#completely #every #fire #i #meant

To this day, I've found that it doesn't matter what a guy looks like if he's really funny. His sense of humor makes him attractive. On the other hand, you don't hear men saying, 'No she's not pretty, but is she ever funny!' ↗

— Catherine O'Hara

#day #ever #found #funny #guy

As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#good #hard #i #just #make

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent. ↗

— Barack Obama

#build #business #century #change #creative

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.' ↗

— Barack Obama

#everybody #good #huh #legislation #like