More often than not in poetry I find difficulty to be gratuitous and show-offy and camouflaging, experimental to a kind of insane… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
In my book, 'Let Patients Help,' one chapter is titled 'Let patients vote on what's worth the cost.' That's sensible, right? In… — Dave deBronkart Copy Share Image
The most happy women within their homes are those who have married sensible men. The latter suffer themselves to be governed with… — Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne Copy Share Image
They sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, Logical, oh responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where… — Roger Hodgson Copy Share Image
I knew what I had to do as party leader had to be sensible and relate to the real situation we were… — David Trimble Copy Share Image
The most sensible person is the one who knows to put his pride in the pocket when he realizes he was wrong… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
After listening to the debate on unemployment I can see a danger that Liberals lose to the Tories their claim to have… — Jo Grimond Copy Share Image
We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
A real strategy is a coherent mix of policy and action designed to overcome a significant challenge. So a sensible employee might… — Richard P. Rumelt Copy Share Image
The wildest dreams of wild men, even, are not the less true, though they may not recommend themselves to the sense which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We need sensible people in the system, who are honest and passionate about the country and will not fall pray to corruption. — Manini Mishra Copy Share Image
I always recommend a sensible diet, including lots of carbohydrates and avoiding too much fat. Dancers don't need different fuel from other… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning,… — Walter Ulbricht Copy Share Image
My first notebook was a Big Five tablet, given to me [at age five] by my mother with the sensible suggestion that… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
For, in truth, an image is only dead matter shaped by the craftsman's hand. But we have no sensible image of sensible… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
I got into university to study graphic design, and I got into drama school as well, so I had the choice whether… — Chris Geere Copy Share Image
There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies… — Thomas Dolby Copy Share Image
Working is the best thing for me because I'm borderline ADHD, so I need some kind of focus or I go a… — Jaime Winstone Copy Share Image
The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think it is having answers and not simply anger, and providing solutions that people believe will change their lives in a… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose He means also, that we must be… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
People might just decide, 'Yeah, I'll diversify my portfolio. I'll live in a rental.' That is a very sensible thing for many… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
I've been blessed with pretty strong stamina and healthy genes, so I'd call myself sensible. I've had regular mammograms ever since I… — Harriet Walter Copy Share Image
Most people, once the money started getting bigger, thought we would buy a millionaire's house looking out at the sea - but… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
People enter states of consciousness where they think they've become enlightened. The best thing to do, if you've gone through one of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these… — Oleg Romanishin Copy Share Image
True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to… — William James Copy Share Image
He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the… — Andrew Jackson Downing Copy Share Image