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We live in a world when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.
- Oscar Wilde
Life at times loses its sense of reality; it appears to us like a weird, optical illusion - a phantasmagoric bubble that will disappear at the slightest breath.
- Oscar Wilde
The one charm of the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest of the play is entirely over, they propose to continue it. If they were allowed their own way, every comedy would have a tragic ending, and every tragedy would culminate in a farce. They are charmingly artificial, but they have no sense of art.
- Oscar Wilde
Trust is a measurement of my sense of safety with you.
- Pat MacMillan
And when people sense that something is coming around the logical corner that they will not to be so, they often just refuse to carefully follow the argument. It's as common as sin, and a large part of it too.
- Dallas Willard
He comes where we are, and he brings us the life we hunger for. An early report reads, "Life was in him, life that made sense of human existence" (John 1:4). To be the light of life, and to deliver God's life to women and men where they are and as they are, is the secret of the enduring relevance of Jesus. Suddenly they are flying right-side up, in a world that makes sense.
- Dallas Willard
Their failure was something you felt rather than saw.
- Wendell Berry
We have so much pride in welcoming these passengers onto the plane, and they have so much pride in travel. It's something that I definitely always remember, when I'm playing a scene on the plane, just to imbue everything with that sense of excitement.
- Christina Ricci
We are trying to motivate Christians everywhere with the love of Christ for the lost and to help them sense the urgency we must have to reach unbelievers everywhere, before it is too late for them.
- Reinhard Bonnke
The opposite of sloth is not 'activity' or industriousness in a business sense. It is fortitude - including patience and long-suffering.
- Thomas Merton
Man can live the most amazing things if they make sense to him. But the difficulty is to create that sense.
- Carl Jung
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
- Livy