Sensible Quotes


Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.

No good opera plot can be sensible for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Good-humoured unaffected girls will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous the sensible man hardly anything.

Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does then only temporarily.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman like any other sensible human being always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

The only sensible ends of literature are first the pleasurable toil of writing; second the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly the solid cash.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is but the world as it will be.

False happiness renders men stern and proud and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible and that happiness is always shared.

One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like " she said "but I've heard nonsense compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Sensible people find nothing useless.

Sensible people have got to work together.

Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr. Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants.

Sensible fathers and mothers when their children marry go back to the old days and renew their youth.

Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking.

GOOD adj. Sensible madam to the worth of this present writer. Alive sir to the advantages of letting him alone.

As for that said Waldenshare "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell.

There was unprecedented elite condemnation of the plans to invade Iraq. Sensible analysts were able to perceive that the enterprise carried significant risks for U.S. interests however conceived.

If God wants us to do a thing he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Architecture is not an inspirational business it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband and by her heart when taking a lover.

The easiest diet is you know eat vegetables eat fresh food. Just a really sensible healthy diet like you read about all the time.

Every day we should hear at least one little song read one good poem see one exquisite picture and if possible speak a few sensible words.

As you get older you're told to be sensible but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.

To write what is worth publishing to find honest people to publish it and get sensible people to read it are the three great difficulties in being an author.

Every man when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights and to feel his own importance will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever

Anybody who has something sensible or worthwhile to say should be able to say it calmly and soberly relying on the words themselves to convey his meaning without resorting to yelling.

When our Lord says we must be converted and become as little children I suppose he means also that we must be sensible of our weakness comparatively speaking as a little child.

Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

Need doesn't care about being sensible.

All sensible investing is value investing

Sometimes I wish I were less sensible.

Creativity can flourish within sensible financial limitations.

No sensible person ever made an apology.

I've always been very sensible with money.

Few criminals die sensible of their crimes.

I think Romney's foreign policy is sensible.

No sensible author wants anything but praise.

Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.

INDIFFERENT adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

... people miss a great deal by being sensible.

Creativity is not and never has been sensible.

We don't do sensible things. This is America.

I have an idea that all sensible people

Only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions.

Love isn't sensible Red. I think that's the point.

Still obviously one can't be sensible all the time.

What a grand higgledy-piggledy sensible old place Norwich is!

I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.

I admire sensible kind people. They're not often famous.

The ridiculous is closer to life's source than the sensible.

A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

I am an anarchist like any other sensible person. ~ Merlyn

The stars are honest and sensible. But humanity is insane!

To sensible men every day is a day of reckoning.

The muse in charge of fantasy wears good sensible shoes.

Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.

A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.

I'm a really good hacker but I'm not a sensible person.

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

No really sensible person ever remembers enough poetry to recite it.

Only the gamefish swims upstream But the sensible fish swims down.

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.

No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

Be sensible of your wants that you maybe sensible of your treasures.

A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.

Actually I think it's quite sensible not to take yourself too seriously.

All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.

To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.

The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules!

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

I cannot understand how sensible people still defend Facebook YouTube and Twitter

Every sensible man every honorable man must hold the Christian sect in horror.

What is common becomes sense but what is sensible doesn't always become common.

I really believe that beauty comes from health - sensible eating and exercise.

Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.

Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.

I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.

A moral sensible and well-bred manWill not affront me and no other can.

I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.

We think very few people sensible except those who are of our opinion.

As you get to thirty the main thing is to not be sensible.

It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.

I live a sensible life. You know I don't take on too much.

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.

It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.

The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.

Expired condoms are like nuclear waste: there's nothing sensible you can do with it.

One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature and still be very sensible.

It is quite sensible for them to sit back and see where they are.

Depression is a very sensible reaction to just about everything we live in now.

A well-trained sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.

I've always been sensible with my money. I can't say I'm a business genius.

All sensible men are of the same religion but no sensible man ever tells.

We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.

The public thinks big sensible measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things

Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is after all black magic.

The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.

My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible except for those who agree with us.

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

No sensible person ever opens the door of his house without knowing who is knocking.

Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves and of our visible sensible world.

No sensible man ever engages unprepared in a fencing match of words with a woman.

I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.

You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.

Opera in English is in the main just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.

To be now a sensible man by and by a fool and presently a beast!

God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength.

The most delicate the most sensible of all pleasures consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

I don't think it's that difficult to administer. I'm sure a sensible solution can be found.

If an idea is indeed sensible it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

Somewhere a long way away people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens.

A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

The very idea of supernatural magic - including miracles - is incoherent devoid of sensible meaning.

The only sensible approach is not to take it too seriously. What counts is the writing.

Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?

Lots of comics try stuff out all year round which is very sensible - I don't.

Who do you think you are Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.

When you put someone down all the time eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.

Plants want to grow; they are on your side as long as you are reasonably sensible.

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

[Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth?

I think it's sensible to plan for the future now I'm a father and a husband.

I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.

Why would any sensible human being put meat filled with ammonia in the mouths of their children?

My parents are wonderful practical sensible people and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

If we were sensible we would seek death--the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

Ours is a stable country. Ours is a sensible country. And ours is a fundamentally decent country.

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

The Lady: a fluty voice sensible shoes a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember.

She was sensible and clever but eager in everything; her sorrows her joys could have no moderation.

Nothing is concealed from the wise and sensible while the unbelieving and unworthy cannot learn the secrets.

We don't in a sensible world want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren

Really he thought if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice who could you trust?

The sensible part of me wanted to dissect my emotions overthinking and overcomplicating my reaction to Jev.

But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible ' pleaded Anne.

[Theresa May] is very sensible and I think that's a good thing at this point in time.

Provoking isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words one finds them not.

Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls because it is the meaning of life.

In a very ugly and sensible age the arts borrow not from life but from each other.

There is just no sensible logical reason why we would not make use of stem cell research.

A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.

My mother was pretty strict. I hated it but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.

No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.

There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.

the appetite for thinking must be regulated as all sensible people know for it may stifle one's life.

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

Marriage is like war - an experience that no adventurous man would evade and no sensible man repeat.

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another which he was never sensible of in himself.

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

She remembered as every sensible person does that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.

[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes an inspired exegesis

When you end a successful sitcom the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

The most sensible skill that I can give to somebody born in 2003 is a perfect command of Mandarin.

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.

One if one is sensible blames government not the servers of government not those entangled in their governments.

Traders can cause short-term volatility. In the long run the market must revert to a sensible price/earnings multiple.

Stop telling yourself that dreams don't matter that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible.

One is more certain to influence men to produce more effect on them by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

It's time for the sensible center to rise up and push for a rational approach to our fiscal challenges.

Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously.

I am young! Being creative and keeping your brain occupied is very sensible because if you don't you die slowly.

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible such as find some sort of useful work.

I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.

At the age of 21 I was so sensible and became a nun. I am very grateful to myself for that.

The only sensible approach to disease and insect control I think is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment.

We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.

If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.

Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.

Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.

If you tell me I'm sensible in addition to normal and wise I'm going to punch you in the stomach.

A single woman of good fortune is always respectable and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.

Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price not a mediocre business at a bargain price.

Always begin anew with the day just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

Of metaphors those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

It's a sensible rule that says before you get a mortgage it should be checked whether you can afford it.

Drinking freshly made juices and eating enough whole foods to provide adequate fiber is a sensible approach to a healthful diet.

It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American argument or parody their political leadership.

I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages I think would be a sensible thing to do.

I've had good publishers and bad publishers and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off

This is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damaging impact on competitiveness.

Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.

In short if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation we will clearly have to do it ourselves.

Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

Get together a hundred or two men however sensible they may be and you are very likely to have a mob.

Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery and I have not found any books so sensible since.

When you live in a small house with five younger siblings it's actually far more sensible- and much quicker- to cry alone.

Mathematics is I believe the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth as well as a sensible intelligible world.

If you go to the U.S. you've got a huge market cheap energy good skills and pensions are a sensible cost.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.

A loose horse is any horse sensible enough to get rid of its rider at an early stage and carry on unencumbered.

He shall despise none but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.

There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.

Dear Posterity If you have not become more just more peaceful and in general more sensible... then may the Devil take you!

I am convinced that a calm quiet and harmonious interior can be as beneficial to health as a sensible diet and regular exercise

The more sensible a woman is supposing her not to be masculine the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.

The mind is more sensible than heart if you are sure listen to your heart if you are confuse listen to your mind.

Benign environmentalists are opposed to pollution as all sensible people are; malign environmentalists are opposed to energy and most of what it enables.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd he at once becomes a blockhead.

There are three bodies no sensible man directly challenges: the Roman Catholic Church the Brigade of Guards and the National Union of Mineworkers

I got a feeling that when I have kids I'm going to have a little girl and she's going to be completely sensible.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten and to leave off fighting at once.

An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it.

India is known for its sobriety and wisdom balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur whether they copy these in advance or not.

See it all. See it fairly. Be truthful be sensible and be careful with language. When nothing depends on man everything depends on him.

You can deal with the brain as I say; it looks sensible whereas the heart the human heart I'm afraid looks a fucking mess.

Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about physical processes.

If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse where nobody will understand my jokes.

There is no way of finding the middle ground even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall.

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is you can't even tell who is who.

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness That which to me Is the only sensible way to love.

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible you'd do something else.

I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

As bees extract honey from thyme the strongest and driest of herbs so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstances.

Celebrities in general are pretty democratic just being in the theater. Plus I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible... he's just a reasonable sensible human being.

The vast majority of Malaysians are sensible people; they're moderates they want peace they want harmonious race relations at home. They look for national unity.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it.

During these continued tough economic times writing a sensible fair budget that provides real opportunities for Washington families workers and businesses is always a challenge.

The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe.

It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist for if one is doomed to disappointment why experience it in advance?

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

It is all very well for so-called sensible people to recommend flat heels and short skirts but most of us prefer not to be sensible.

If you refuse to change your job (if you don't like it) the only sensible thing you can do is practice loving it every day.

I wish the women's rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn before they are fit to vote.

The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.

It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the progress of decay.

Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way using local resources is not sound or sensible policy.

People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible loving woman will vanquish ten men.

Whatever it is that the government does sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man who is neither capable of receiving pleasures nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy thrifty and sensible.

Focus your attention on the quality of your words and not the quantity because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish.

Many get the repute of being witty but thereby lose the credit of being sensible. Jest has its little hour seriousness should have all the rest.

Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes clever people can do it in five and sensible people don't go to lectures at all.

Edmonton is Canada's answer to Omaha. Solid unassuming and surrounded by a whole lot of nothing. It's a place that makes you think of sensible shoes.

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing to find honest men to publish it and to find sensible men to read it.

To have faith in Divine protection is good but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals.

I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.

The introduction of Christianity which under whatever form always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind soon made a sensible change in these rude and fierce manners.

In the great majority of cases we simply do not know enough about the industry or company to come to sensible judgments-in that situation we pass.

Throughout the whole vegetable sensible and rational world whatever makes progress towards maturity as soon as it has passed that point begins to verge towards decay.

We try to buy businesses with good-to-superb underlying economics run by honest and able people and buy them at sensible prices. That's all I'm trying to do.

Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning things would quickly go awry.

I think we all have a Wallace and Gromit inside us. Wallace is the part that has wild plans. Gromit is the sensible side reining you in.

I advance with obedience to the work ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.

I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things you must risk it.

It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good sensible serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.

Doth the Reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or is it something distinct from their being perceived and that bears no relation to the mind?

It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman that glare and glitter gimcracks and gewgaws are not indispensable to domestic solacement.

If man could apply half the ingenuity he's exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends there's no limit to what he might yet accomplish

Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.

It's hard to be responsible adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.

It is my view that there is no sensible military use for nuclear weapons whether "strategic" weapons "tactical" weapons "theatre" weapons weapons at sea or weapons in space...

True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency stability and flowing human intercourse.

I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible logical ordered stable resilient. Wild nature is everything we're struggling to regain.

And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos.

In short Anarchism means a condition or society where all men and women are free and where all enjoy equally the benefits of an ordered and sensible life.

If we are not sensible about this in our ideas of wealth creation we may completely destroy the planet - which we are already doing in many ways.

Of all questions why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit that a sensible response exists.

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

In fact merely writing the facts on a piece of paper and stating our problem clearly goes a long way toward helping us to reach a sensible decision.

My life which I dream will be so beautiful so poetic so vast so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's - monotonous sensible stupid.

But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges and who takes care of me in a billion ways.

Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process constrained by history follows perforce.

They sent me away to teach me how to be sensible logical responsible practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable clinical intellectual cynical.

Being conservative has never been regarded as old-fashioned. But if you fight for a sensible step in the right direction which others has deserted you will be branded "reactionary".

I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business.

The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term.

I'm a Pisces and Pisces have this weird inability to be completely spontaneous. We're too conscious of our actions. I've always been way too sensible for my own good.

Every sensible banker understands that Greece should not have received any more money: a bankrupt state that can never be expected to repay loans is not a good debtor.

Vanity I am sensible is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger when in company of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.

That strategy of buy and hold which is the sound and sensible one for the individual can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.

To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information much of it meaningless and to arrive at sensible if erroneous conclusions is a skill not to be sneezed at.

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions i.e. support the free market individual liberty and the end of welfare and affirmative action.

In a cabinet of natural history we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast fish and insect.

Every day one should at least hear one little song read one good poem see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words.

Spirit of Beauty whose sweet impulses flung like rose of dawn across the sea alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world essential loveliness.

We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart courageous and sensible in planning for future.

You have to have a temperament to grab ideas and do sensible things. Most people donâ??t grab the right ideas or donâ??t know what to do with them.

There is a social responsibility to take care of vulnerable people. It seems that a sensible social responsibility is obligatory education but also decent education and that is not happening.

A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.

Prayer is a sincere sensible affectionate pouring out of the soul to God through Christ in the strength and assistance of the Spirit for such things as God has promised.

Like birds of passage the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.

The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images by which we might fix the results of analysis in our minds.

All sensible politicians favor growth just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending invest available resources wisely and clamp down on tax evasion.

Everybody likes to indulge in a bit of ice-cream and junk food. If you want to be a top player you've got to be sensible in terms of what you eat.

Working is the best thing for me because I'm borderline ADHD so I need some kind of focus or I go a bit extreme. I need work to keep me sensible.

There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.

How gladly would I meet mortality my sentence and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down as in my mother's lap! There I should rest and sleep secure.

It's a sense in Minnesota that we need to get back to common sense. We need to get back to taking sensible looks at positions and understanding the proper role of government.

Yes very sensible... People die of common sense Dorian one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

If you avoid the killer diseases and keep the degenerative ones under control with sensible diet and exercise and whatever chemotherapy you need to stay in balance you can live nearly forever.

I think it is having answers and not simply anger and providing solutions that people believe will change their lives in a radical way but do it in a way that's sensible.

Really there was only one sensible thing to do. Stay the course. Pray it through day by day minute by minute. The Lord had an answer and it would surely come. (p. 203)

So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.

I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall a decline and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

I think there's only one sensible place for a person to be at 5:30 in the morning. That's in bed. And what am I doing? I'm out running. And I completely hate this.

The way I see it there are two types of people. Those stupid enough to get ripped off by people selling ringtones and those sensible enough to set up ringtone selling services.

I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. If you don't hurt anybody else what you do is your own business.

Your first great duties you are sensible are those you owe to Heaven to your Creator and Redeemer. Let these be ever present to your minds and exemplified in your lives and conduct.

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then when it can't be ignored any longer have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible humane and scientific eh?

For more than a half a century we know that we prospered because of a bipartisan consensus on defense and foreign policy. We must do more than return to that sensible cooperative approach.

My mind struggled to formulate a coherent though any thought. I opened my mouth. "Your pajamas have Eeyore on them." "I like Eeyore. He's sensible. A sober outlook on life never hurt anyone.

The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say 'As we have nothing sensible to tell you between now and 8:30 please tune in again then.

If we desire a kinder nation seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child for example is also a more humane place for adults.

Persons of genius and those who are most capable of art are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

In cold weather a good rule is to light your fire first before doing anything else. It is always more sensible to keep yourself warm rather than trying to thaw yourself out later.

How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.

So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped.

The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.

The characters in the four-lettered word FACT consist of seventy-five percent ACT so it is always sensible to see the character of a person solely by his ACT or deeds than his words.

On the earth even in the darkest night the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle but little as may remain the retina of the eye is sensible of it.

The market as we're all painfully aware in the aftermath of the banking crisis can be an idiot. It has no perception of right or wrong or even sensible or insane. It sees profit.

Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force because it allows sensible people to realize how stupid and vile their beliefs are.

My wife has always supported me in my career even when there were times when it was more sensible to get a job. It has been her confidence in me that has helped enormously.

War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation his troops and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.

The most happy women within their homes are those who have married sensible men. The latter suffer themselves to be governed with so much the more pleasure as they are always masters of themselves.

A new question has arisen in modern man's mind the question namely whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.

I should be an affected women if I made any pretence of being surprised by my son's inspiring such emotions; but I can't be indifferent to anyone who is so sensible on his merits

He hath not eat paper as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal only sensible in the duller parts. (Shakespeare Love's Labor's Lost IV)

Whosoever enjoys not this life I count him but an apparition though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions the way to be immortal is to die daily.

And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings.

I'm certainly going to support Al Gore because on the whole he's the more sensible figure and you vote not for the perfect but for the best. Coupled with that is a special situation.

I think Pro Tools is pretty analogous to how people composed music on tape back in the 70s taking little fragments of things and saying 'How can we organize these in a sensible way'?

I am sensible that my keenness of temper and a vanity to be distinguished for the day make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.

I'm not sure you're quite sensible of the honor I'm doing you " Jace said. "you'll be the first mundane who has ever been inside the Institute." "Probably the smell keeps the rest of them away.

I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story a plot that developed with a beginning a middle and an end that would tie everything together.

My first notebook was a Big Five tablet given to me [at age five] by my mother with the sensible suggestion that I stop whining and learn to amuse myself by writing down my thoughts.

Observe the forms and beauties of sensible things and comprehend the Word of God in them. If you do so the truth will reveal to you in all such things only He who made them.

I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average proportion of the numbers of each is not to my advantage.

But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.