#sense

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth. ↗

— Laura Linney

#closer #comedy #dealing #get #make

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#behind #common #common sense #deal #genius

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#common #common sense #his #ideas #mental

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor. ↗

— John Lithgow

#humor #infantile #senses #tend #wonderfully

We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#identity #need #our #past #sense

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#after #come #every #every time #humor

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

#any #dalai #dalai lama #freedom #freedom of speech

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding. ↗

— Martin Luther

#foot #must #reason #sense #trample

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#got #i #much #sense #some

I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#care #edition #first #i #natural