Top 1200 Make Sense Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

We evolved to make sense of this nonlinear and unpredictable world with stories. These stories are often very powerful.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

A script like 'The Sixth Sense' is fun to read: It's so well-written, and you get a vivid sense of what's going to be onscreen.

I know what I really want for Christmas. I want my childhood back. Nobody is going to give me that. I might give at least the memory of it to myself if I try. I know it doesn't make sense, but since when is Christmas about sense, anyway? It is about a child, of long ago and far away, and it is about the child of now. In you and me. Waiting behind the door of or hearts for something wonderful to happen. A child who is impractical, unrealistic, simpleminded and terribly vulnerable to joy.

Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.

Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.

Forget the laws. If the laws don't make sense, if they run contrary to your conscience, you have to disobey them.

You just write and you don't try to make sense of it. You just put it down the way you got it.

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Different times and different structures make more sense at one point in life than at another.

it make no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities

I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense.

I don`t think this wall [Donald Trump wants to build], having the - there`s no way to force them to, but expecting the Mexicans to pay for it doesn`t make any sense either.

You've gotta do what you like to do. If you do things you don't like to do, what sense does it make?

There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

Love resolves all contradictions. Without love, man cannot make sense of his existence.

I am a voter. I have one vote, yet you're a superdelegate and count for thousands and thousands of votes. That doesn't make any sense at all.

It doesn't make any sense to continue to elect people like Ron Kind or Russ Feingold, individuals that literally are dedicated to growing the federal government.

There's an underlying sense with 'Tongue' that... it's really... it's real. I mean that in the sense that now I'm not afraid to touch on relationships and on my sexuality in my videos.

To be able to make statements, you need to be confident about what you think. You need to have a sense of right and wrong.

At Pixar, we do a million versions of the movie, and every one of them goes through their awkward teenage phase where it's terrible and doesn't make sense, and we just keep working on it.

Didn't it make sense that after something horrible happens, something better should follow?

Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.

People like things that make sense to them; your perspective is your reality.

I am a different person in NYC. My energy is way different. I just make sense here.

I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense.

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.

What we need to do is take that inchoate sense that something isn't right and give it a structural component and the sense that things can be another way.

No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.

What is often lacking is not creativity in the idea-creating sense but innovation in the action-producing sense, i.e. putting ideas to work.

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.

My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.

The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.

If you're going to make a movie about a character who is a supervillain, it's fantastic to have a core sense of empathy for that character.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

When I was younger, I was ambitious. Now I'm not ambitious anymore. I just want to be happy. Does that make sense?

I'm surely not the only one to notice we employ metaphors to make sense of the news. I always like to take note of who hides their origins and who shows them off.

Sometimes, if a country's currency is overvalued in real terms, and it looks like the current account is going to be in deficit for the foreseeable future, devaluation can make sense.

If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.

See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.

I am learning the Language of World and everything in the world is beginning to make sense to me

If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.

When we see Rey, we want to hear Rey's theme, and when the Force is referred to or felt, we want to hear the Force theme, and so on. We hope that these references make sense to the fans and make the aural connections that we want them to have.

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

Your deeper sense isn’t a springboard; it’s a landing place. If you draw conclusions too quickly or too slowly, you’ll establish your self where it doesn’t belong. The fine line between the two is in your own deeper sense. It is in your actual knowing within that deeper sense.

We try to develop products that seem somehow inevitable, that leave you with the sense that that's the only possible solution that makes sense.

For years following the death of my mother, I wanted to write about her. I started writing what I thought of as personal essays about growing up as her child, but I never could finish any of them. I think I was too close to that loss, and too eager to try and resolve things, to make her death make sense.

If you have a five-second role in a film, and those five seconds make sense, then that is what matters.

If you're a gardener, or creating a garden you're clearly looking to the future. You have a sense of your own future and a sense of yourself in that space. People coming here feel that hope, that renewal, and that sense of regeneration. They get their hands dirty and connect back to the ground, which is what we feel strongly about - giving everybody the opportunity to get connected to the earth.

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

By walking naked you gain far more than coolness. You feel an unexpected sense of freedom from restraint. An uplifting and almost delirious sense of simplicity. In this new simplicity you soon find that you have become, in a new and surer sense, and integral part of the simple, complex world you are walking through. And then you are really walking.

By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today.

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.

It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.