Sensible Quotes

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.

— John W. Gardner

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

— Bill Maher

I've always been very sensible with money.

— Lemar

“Need doesn't care about being sensible.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Sensible brands lend themselves to all of the senses.”

— Ryan Lilly

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

— Albert Camus

“he is the personification of sensible silence.”

— Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

I go for a sensible dinner with the wife when I can.

— Declan Donnelly

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

— Chrystos

It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment.

— Glynis Johns

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

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Steven Rattner

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

— Anonymous

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

— Anonymous

HUSBAND, A sensible sort of a man -- he never thinks of romance and marriage;

— Nikhil Saluja

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

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations - not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomatic relations - is a sensible, simple, and straightforward approach…

— Cyrus Vance

They sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I…

— Roger Hodgson

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Jodhi May

I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and…

— John Ruskin

If it suits [God] to be a deity that we must seek without being forced to, would it not have been sensible…

— Richard Dawkins

Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts…

— Alan Seeger

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

— Vernon Howard

A good American friend of mine who has lived in India for many years, working as a journalist, was recently denied entry…

— Noam Chomsky

The main thing that develops positional judgement, that perfects it and makes it many-sided, is detailed analytical work, sensible tournament practice, a…

— Alexander Kotov

I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common…

— Isaac Newton

We need to claim lunch back. It is our natural right. It has been stolen from us by our rulers. The fear…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Sensible policies on global warming should weight the costs of slowing climate change against the benefits of slower climate change. Ironically, recent…

— William Nordhaus

Out of time we cut 'days' and 'nights', 'summers' and 'winters.' We say what, each part of the sensible continuum is, and…

— William James

There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. ... It is no great…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Women always look for a peaceful solution to a conflict. They are more sensible when they go for compromise or when they…

— Dalia Grybauskaite

Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects…

— Samuel Johnson

It is possible to express the laws of thermodynamics in the form of independent principles , deduced by induction from the facts…

— William John Macquorn Rankine

Be a balanced optimist. Nobody is suggesting that you become an oblivious Pollyanna, pretending that nothing bad can or ever will happen.…

— Dale Carnegie

Crime in the city streets is more than a political issue. It's a too rampant fact… In Indianapolis they have come up…

— Malcolm Forbes

In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the…

— David Abram

But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did they render unsound…

— Warren Buffett

A Seed for Contemplation: Creative people who cherish the gift of life often slip into the secret chambers of the creative mind.…

— Harold Klemp

Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and…

— David Hume