You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
Aeschylus

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
Robert Louis Stevenson

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
Stephen Fry

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
Stephen Fry

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei

In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.
Mike Krzyzewski

My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
Timothy Leary

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
William Butler Yeats

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.
Steve Irwin

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
Aldous Huxley

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

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

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
Edmund Burke

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.
Katharine Hepburn

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
Katharine Hepburn

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
Eric Hoffer

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Eric Hoffer