“No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.” — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Let's be sensible, shall we? Let's not make an enemy of the whackadoodle Djinn. - Olivia” — Thea Harrison Copy Share Image
The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
No sensible person ever opens the door of his house without knowing who is knocking. — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not. — Charlotte Forten Grimke Copy Share Image
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
Why would any sensible human being put meat filled with ammonia in the mouths of their children? — Jamie Oliver Copy Share Image
They sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I… — Roger Hodgson Copy Share Image
Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations - not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomatic relations - is a sensible, simple, and straightforward approach… — Cyrus Vance Copy Share Image
If it suits [God] to be a deity that we must seek without being forced to, would it not have been sensible… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts… — Alan Seeger Copy Share Image
I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
I think the best way is to keep stressing, that, as we build out a new energy system, one of the best… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
People live their lives, constantly surrounded by anxiety. if they live long before dying, they end up in senility, worn out by… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
He took his mouth from hers and stared down at her with eyes so dark they no longer looked blue. “Amanda, do… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
For more than thirty years, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd have been gardening with extraordinary, indeed legendary, results. Part memoir, part omnium-gatherum… — Philip Gambone Copy Share Image
Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People always ask us women about how we balance our lives. Rarely do they ever ask men this but we are asked… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
Before you sweat the logistics of focus: first, care. Care intensely… Obsessing over the slipperiness of focus, bemoaning the volume of those… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
Still, I figure we shouldn't' discourage fans of actively managed funds. With all their buying and selling, active investors ensure the market… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
... those who sit in the darkness of passions and whose minds are blinded by ignorance, or, rather, those who have not… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Resolution number one: Obviously will lose twenty pounds. Number two: Always put last night's panties in the laundry basket. Equally important, will… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
What is it that is done to our children that their puberty should deform them? They have the joy of movement; they… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
The core of America is not racist. It is not hostile to women. It is increasingly offended by gay bashing. Yet it… — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Before committing to a task, it’s sensible to have a clear idea of our competence.” — Dr Prem Jagyasi Copy Share Image
To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image