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Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride.
I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.
All music is escapism for me, but I like the way that, on a good night, that sense of escapism can be shared.
You sense when something is special, but you don't know how special it is until it's in front of an audience.
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
I spent a lot of time on recce. It is a kind of creative chaos, but I like the sense of creative serendipity.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
I've got two older sisters who I'm very close to. And my son's grown up with a big sense of family around him.
Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.
Brexit is actually a step back in the sense that you are going back from being connected to being on your own.
A growing body of evidence suggests that humans do have a rudimentary moral sense from the very start of life.
Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.
It's our most underrated value, I think, as human beings is our sense of humor. It's how we choose our friends.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!
Both individuals and societies tell themselves stories to simplify and make sense of the messy chaos of reality.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.
Apparently, if you live until 75, you'll have spent 25 years in bed, so it makes sense to have a decent mattress.
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.
Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.
Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today.
What is crucial in dealing with loss is not to lose the lesson. That makes you a winner in the most profound sense.
I wake up every day with a smile, and in that sense, I feel the same as I did when I arrived at Real Madrid in 2005.
A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
I sort of don't believe in closure. In the sense that it doesn't make me feel better to think that something is over.
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.
English is like music. The English language is really fit for singing. The notes match the feelings, and it makes sense.
People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power.
I was so depressed for so many years over trying to become a working comedian that my sense of self-worth would plummet.
Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.