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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
Joseph Addison

Courage, Often, Duty

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
Joseph Addison

Nature, Good, Truth

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
Samuel Goldwyn

Smile, Luck, Ability

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
Lewis Carroll

Care, Themselves, Sounds

The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.
Bernard De Voto

Heart, Bad, Sun

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.
John Cusack

Women, Best, Amazing

I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?
Drew Barrymore

Life, Fun, Person

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
Jennifer Jones

Life, Humor, Through

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
William Penn

Love, Reason, Union

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
William Osler

Best, Water, Common

A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.
Chris Rock

Marriage, Humor, Great

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
Sophocles

Done, Why, Cannot

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
Christopher Hitchens

Humor, Possible, Tragedy

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.
Christopher Hitchens

Faith, Religion, Health

Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
Gary Oldman

Family, Good, Courage

John and I were lucky because our mother was a strong woman with high expectations and a strong sense of values. She encouraged us to pursue things we were interested in and not think about what other people wanted us to do.
Caroline Kennedy

Mother, Strong, Woman

My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.
Ed Miliband

Everything, Through, Try

But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.
Roger Sessions

Makes, Effort, Profound

Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
Thurgood Marshall

Freedom, Today, Speak

Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Caring, Community

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.
Mason Cooley

Common, Consider, Vulgar

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.
Mason Cooley

Philosophy, Run, Common

I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'.
Kim Kardashian

Business, Dad, Lazy

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
Tom Stoppard

Life, Enjoy, Enough

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
Thomas Aquinas

Men, Live, Reason

It's my job to be the Pierrot, the clown, in the theatrical sense.
Marilyn Manson

Job, Clown, Theatrical

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
Anthony Hecht

Best, Fun, Yourself

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
Lord Chesterfield

Forward, Serious, Child

Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.
Jim Jarmusch

Cool, Beautiful, Friends

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
Joseph Joubert

Great, Men, Live

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