Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money. — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
[Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth? — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
There is nothing 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
Sensible risk-taking isn't just important in the financial world; risk traverses all industries. — Randi Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible. — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
I've been very sensible with the money I made, and I did make good money. — Neve Campbell 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
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
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
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
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
“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
I've always believed as a value that the government has a vital - not overwhelming, but vital - role to play in… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
Dealing with all the questions once the book is out and unchangeable, forces you to permanently give opinions about - in this… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Is it not easy to conceive the World in your Mind? To think the Heavens fair? The Sun Glorious? The Earth fruitful?… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
It's from love and knowledge of nature that any sensible understanding must come. Technology is essentially antagonistic to nature - that in… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
But although the attractive virtue of the earth extends upwards, as has been said, so very far, yet if any stone should… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Murtagh was right about women. Sassenach, I risked my life for ye, committing theft, arson, assault, and murder into the bargain. In… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Therefore, doing the Stations of the Cross was still more laborious than consoling, and required a sacrifice. It was much the same… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
You don't need a marriage license to live with someone, to have the security of a home, to rear any number of… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Experience conclusively shows that index-fund buyers are likely to obtain results exceeding those of the typical fund manager, whose large advisory fees… — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
Without order or authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
In summer we live out of doors, and have only impulses and feelings, which are all for action, and must wait commonly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief. — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
Nothing is concealed from the wise and sensible, while the unbelieving and unworthy cannot learn the secrets. — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Copy Share Image
There is no gospel without the offence. This is God's wisdom. It never seems sensible to us in our flesh. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image