I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.
In a sense it's a lot crazier when you're on the road and it's a lot less stable, but it's actually really healthy for me because it keeps me from isolating, which I tend to do a lot.
The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators.
I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community's legal and ethical sense.
Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated themselves from Darwinian selection.
I sense that the road to Heaven is paved with dashed hopes.
In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too.
By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.'
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
The Farm Bill is one of the only bills that provides substantial deficit reduction that passed the Senate this year. It only makes sense that this deficit reduction bill would be included in a larger deficit reduction agreement.
We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
When I read comics, they were dense stories. When you put them down, there was a sense of having gotten a great deal from them.
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
Israel claims it needs nuclear weapons as a deterrent against any threat to its existence. The Arab world in return feels that this is an imbalanced system; there is a sense of humiliation and impotence.
Citizens, regardless of their political inclinations, carry a devout sense of their shared culture and its temperament - and, having contributed to it all their lives, hold decent and reasonable hopes for its continued integrity.
Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.
You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
