Make Sense Quotes - Page 10

• Makes sense to me. Sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs. And I think it's admirable. A lot of people don't have the courage it takes to do something like that.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Thinking, People, Starting Over

  Nicholas Sparks (2013). “Safe Haven”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.

  Brandon Mull

  Interesting, Want, Stuff

  FaceBook post by Brandon Mull from Feb 20, 2013

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• The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

  William Gibson

  Trying, Fiction, Looking Back

  William Gibson (2003). “Pattern Recognition”, p.54, Penguin

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• If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Names, Mit

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky”, p.138, The New Press

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• Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.

  Alan Watts

  Philosophy, Men, Expression

  Alan Watts (1995). “The Philosophies of Asia: The Edited Transcripts”, Tuttle Publishing

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• Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.

  Stephen King

  Redemption, Want, Brooks

  "The Shawshank Redemption". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do.

  Terry Pratchett

  Missing, Answers, Said

  "Thief of Time". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2001.

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• At the end of the day, though, the entire basis for consent laws doesn't make sense. We're not old enough to decide if we don't want a baby, but we are old enough to have one?

  Jessica Valenti

  Baby, Law, The End Of The Day

  Jessica Valenti (2014). “Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters”, p.50, Seal Press

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• .. it makes sense that introverts are uniquely good at leading intiative-takers. Because of their inclination to listen to others and lack of interest in dominating social situations, introverts are more likely to hear and implement suggestions. Having benefited from the talents of their followers, they are then likely to motivate them to be even more proactive. Introverted leaders create a virtious circle of proactivity.

  Susan Cain

  Circles, Leader, Suggestions

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• Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems to make sense in their minds. But it makes no sense to me at all... But it's a popular point of view. Probably because it's so much easier. It relieves you of the burden of any and all self-examination. (Nathan to Nat)

  Catherine Ryan Hyde

  Thinking, Self, Views

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• Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.

  Eamon Duffy

  Past, History, Aspect

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• A long time ago, Anne used to talk about energy - how that was all that love was - ions connecting across synapses of time and air. Don't rationalize, she'd say. None of it will ever make sense. I leaned back against the wall and closed my eyes, not wanting to cry. Anne was right. None of it made any sense.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Life, Wall, Eye

  "If You Come Softly". Book by Jacqueline Woodson, 1998.

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• Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable.

  Gore Vidal

  Men, Religion, Sometimes

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• My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.

  Tig Notaro

  Wrinkles, Hair, Age

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• And now we're apart and you're just some stranger who knows all my secrets and all my family members and all my quirks and flaws and it doesn't make sense.

  Gaby Dunn

  Love, Life, Secret

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• The life of "peace" is both an inner journey toward a disarmed heart and a public journey toward a disarmed world. This difficult but beautiful journey gives infinite meaning and fulfillment to life itself because our lives become a gift for the whole human race. With peace as the beginning, middle, and end of life, life makes sense.

  John Dear

  Beautiful, Peace, Heart

  John Dear (2009). “Living Peace: A Spirituality of Contemplation and Action”, p.223, Image

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• The seven of us on board [the Space Shuttle] represented five different religions. But we were all agreed - it just doesn't make sense how people on earth treat each other. It doesn't make any difference what language we speak. It doesn't make any difference what country we come from. It certainly doesn't make any difference what the color of our skin is. We are all children of God traveling on spaceship earth together.

  Jake Garn

  Country, Children, Color

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• It is certainly true in the United States that there is an uneasiness about certain aspects of science, particularly evolution, because it conflicts, in some people's minds, with their sense of how we all came to be. But you know, if you are a believer in God, it's hard to imagine that God would somehow put this incontrovertible evidence in front of us about our relationship to other living organisms and expect us to disbelieve it. I mean, that doesn't make sense at all.

  Francis Collins

  Mean, Science, Imagination

  "Dr. Francis Collins: ‘There Is An Uneasiness’ About Evolution". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2014.

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• For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.

  Barbara Jordan

  Law, Immigration, Distinction

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• There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.' This is something to ponder as you watch the famous cantina scene in Star Wars. ... Does this make sense, given the overwhelmingly likely situation that galactic civilizations differ in their level of evolutionary development by thousands or millions of years? Would you share drinks with a trilobite, an ourang-outang, or a saber-toothed tiger? Or would you just arrange to have a few specimens stuffed and carted off to the local museum?

  Seth Shostak

  Stars, War, Science

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• By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.

  Brad Pitt

  Time, Poverty, Evening

  "Hyde Park centre stage of greatest show on earth" by Vanessa Thorpe and Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2005.

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• It's hard for me to congratulate somebody after you just lose to them. I'm a winner. It's not being a poor sport or anything like that. If somebody beats you up, you're not going to congratulate them. That doesn't make sense to me. I'm a competitor.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Sports, Hands

  "After the Cavaliers’ Elimination, a Loud Silence From James" by Jonathan Abrams, www.nytimes.com. June 1, 2009.

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• They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Life, Insightful, Moments

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• All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them. If, like me, you have looked at the stars, and tried to make sense of what you see, you too have started to wonder what makes the universe exist.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Science, Answers

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• Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Men, Hands, Left Hand

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