“She has a soft spot for houses that look sensible until you get inside.” — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station. — Mireille Enos Copy Share Image
A loose horse is any horse sensible enough to get rid of its rider at an early stage and carry on unencumbered. — Clive James Copy Share Image
It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere. — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“She was like a sheet anchor sometimes, a steadying influence on him, on everyone around her. Made people laugh, that sensible streak… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“Ellen Louise, you've done the sensible thing all your life. Now's the time to follow your heart." "What if I do that… — Jenna Kernan Copy Share Image
“I find that my patients are far more sensible, and far less histrionic, about the realities of this process than their elected… — Willie Parker Copy Share Image
The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Everybody likes to indulge in a bit of ice-cream and junk food. If you want to be a top player you've got… — Filo Tiatia Copy Share Image
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wish the women's rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
The wolf sniffed beneath the door to be sure this was a human cottage. The scent was undeniable. No pigs, except in… — Vivian Vande Velde Copy Share Image
It's cool that we got rid of that, but we got rid of everything - the encouraging pat on the back or… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
It turns out that one can perpetrate all manner of heinous villainy under a cloak of courtesy and good cheer. . .a… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Most private traders on a losing streak keep trying to trade their way out of a hole. A loser thinks a successful… — Alexander Elder Copy Share Image
We need only reflect on what has been prov'd at large, that we are never sensible of any connexion betwixt causes and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I couldn't care less what anybody says about me. I live my life, especially my personal life, strictly for myself… Whatever you… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
You step forward and make it real for a start. You choose a sensible moment in history. Funnily enough, England was bankrupt… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
As a Buddhist, I view death as a normal process, a reality that I accept will occur as long as I remain… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once,… — Colin Maclaurin Copy Share Image
North Korea and China have proposed what sounds like a pretty sensible option that North Korea should end its development of nuclear… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You don't get rich, you don't often have much fun. Sometimes you get beaten up or shot at or tossed into the… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and… — William James Copy Share Image
For many ages it has been allowed by sensible men, Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuit prius in sensu: That is,… — John Wesley Copy Share Image