The death of marriage has been announced so often and would seem so normal, in a sense. So what's surprising is the sheer longevity and tenacity of this institution.

~ Alain De Botton

Alain De Botton Death Longevity Sense

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

~ John Keats

John Keats Great Consideration Sense

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

~ Alan Rickman

Alan Rickman Director Sense Longs

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

~ August Wilson

August Wilson Art Political Sense

Ultimately, it's a sense of camaraderie and friendship with local people that is core to my journeys.

~ Tim Cope

Tim Cope People Sense Core

It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.

~ Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders Sense Investing Jobs

To have a sense of education and ethics is important.

~ Soleil Moon Frye

Soleil Moon Frye Ethics Important Sense

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

~ Julian Casablancas

Julian Casablancas Vanity Common Sense Sense

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

~ Henry Miller

Henry Miller Body Sense Give

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

~ Dean Inge

Dean Inge Wise Common Sense Sense

When life doesn't make sense, we can still have peace.

~ Rick Warren

Rick Warren Life Sense Still

If you're authentic, people smile because they sense there's a piece of themselves there.

~ Bonnie Hunt

Bonnie Hunt People You Sense

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

~ James Joyce

James Joyce Sense Always Fantastic

Why should poetry have to make sense?

~ Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin Why Sense Should

Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he's musical because he constantly refers to settings where there's singing and dancing.

~ Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Branagh Singing Sense Where

Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

~ Mohsin Hamid

Mohsin Hamid Life Live Sense

The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry.

~ Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch Song Sense Which

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

~ Françoise Sagan

Françoise Sagan Dress You Sense

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

~ Pete Townshend

Pete Townshend Me Say Sense

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

~ C. Northcote Parkinson

C. Northcote Parkinson Boredom Product Sense

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

~ Arthur Erickson

Arthur Erickson Everything Sense Gone

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

~ Isaiah Berlin

Isaiah Berlin Rest Chains Sense

Our future is our sense of common destiny.

~ Ahmet Davutoglu

Ahmet Davutoglu Destiny Sense Common