The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Let only individuals contribute - with sensible limits per election. Otherwise, we are well on our way to ensuring that a government… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Doth the Reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Traders can cause short-term volatility. In the long run, the market must revert to a sensible price/earnings multiple. — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
During these continued tough economic times, writing a sensible, fair budget that provides real opportunities for Washington families, workers and businesses is… — Jeanne Kohl-Welles Copy Share Image
I'd make - before I'd elect somebody - I'd make him do town meetings and face the people and then I would… — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
I definitely gravitate towards things like vegetables, chicken, brown rice, but I don't deprive myself of anything. If I want a Sprinkles… — Abigail Spencer Copy Share Image
What sensible people have got to do is not simply repeal the Affordable Care Act without any alternative, but you've got to… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Clearly, if it is sensible to hold a referendum on independence, it is crucial that we have one on marriage. It is… — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
So many actors are lively-minded, creative people who just tread water in this awful way, waiting for the phone to ring and… — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
Dinner with Steven Moffat in Bar Shu, spent mostly in enthusiastic Dr Who neepery. I love my life…As a side note, running… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is my view that there is no sensible military use for nuclear weapons, whether "strategic" weapons, "tactical" weapons, "theatre" weapons, weapons… — Noel Gayler Copy Share Image
Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
In fact, merely writing the facts on a piece of paper and stating our problem clearly goes a long way toward helping… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his… — Diogenes Copy Share Image
Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
There are a lot of drivers who can carry a car. It doesn't happen very often very successfully. I think it takes… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
We should assume that we all have a lot in common. Speak as if our views are the only sensible ones. This… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
My wife has always supported me in my career, even when there were times when it was more sensible to get a… — Neil Oliver Copy Share Image
All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest… — Victor Ponta Copy Share Image
“Nothing is ever so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.” — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
I am young! Being creative and keeping your brain occupied is very sensible because if you don't you die, slowly. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Your first great duties, you are sensible, are those you owe to Heaven, to your Creator and Redeemer. Let these be ever… — William Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
