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«As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.»
Author: Emmanuel Teney
| About:
Faith,
Needs
| Keywords:
benefit, control, delight, delighting, faith, flow, flowed, flow out, longer, No Control, no longer, sense, strengthened
«A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.»
Author: F. Sagan
| Keywords:
come off, dress, get dressed, inspires, makes, men, off, off and on, on and off, sense, take, Taking Off
«A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
after, all fours, direction, drinks, drink up, four, Hers, kisses, loses, on all fours, sense, sense of direction
«A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| About:
Humor
| Keywords:
every, humor, humored, humors, jolt, jolted, like, on the road, pebble, pebbled, person, road, sense, sensed, sense an, sense of humor, sensing, springs, spring up, take the road, wagon, wagons, without humor, with humor
«All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.»
Author: Piers Anthony
| Keywords:
fathom, fathomed, fathoms, just, make sense, sense, sensed, sense an, sensing
«I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic -- in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
| Keywords:
adjust, adjusted, adjusting, adjusts, disregard, disregarded, disregarding, disregards, ecstasies, ecstasy, enter, in ordinary, live in, measures, myself, ordinary, proportioned, proportions, refuse, Relationships, sense, tempo, The sense
«Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Common sense
| Keywords:
acquired, age, Age to Age, collection, collections, come of age, common, commoner, common sense, eighteen, prejudiced, prejudices, sense, sensed, sense an, sensing
«Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
act, action, Act of, choose, choose up, desire, else, in that, limitation, reject, sacrifice, self-sacrifice, self-sacrificing, self, sense
«Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.»
Author: Helen Rowland
| Keywords:
common, common sense, consists, falling, imagination, in love, merely, sense
«A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
after, bad, badness, Better Late Than Never, current, five, gives, give it a try, giving, Good Living, hour, idea, Know how, later, lie, little, lived, means, minutes, not late, obvious, resist, sense, sheltered, sheltering, shelters, sillier, silliest, silly, simply, strong, take five, temptation, The Temptations, This Is, try, very, why
