The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I can't drive, so I don't need a flash car, and I like living at home, so I don't need a mansion.… — Georgia Groome Copy Share Image
“Really, there was only one sensible thing to do. Stay the course. Pray it through, day by day, minute by minute. The… — Janice Hanna Copy Share Image
Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always… — Christoph Martin Wieland Copy Share Image
People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the… — Alan Page Copy Share Image
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I'm certainly going to support Al Gore because, on the whole, he's the more sensible figure and you vote not for the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
IMPORTANT Book reading is a solitary and sedentary pursuit, and those who do are cautioned that a book should be used as… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
For those who fancy that government's projects are uniquely important, or for those who imagine that holding government office makes someone unusually… — Donald J. Boudreaux Copy Share Image
I am sensible that he who means to do mankind a real service must set down with the determination of putting up,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Karl Popper once advised a student that if he wanted to reap intellectual fame, he should write endless pages of obscure, high-flown… — Anthony de Jasay Copy Share Image
The character is important, of course, but I like when there's intelligence in a movie. I like when it's, how do you… — Lea Seydoux Copy Share Image
Michael Bloomberg is a sensible guy. He's just privileged. He's a goddamn billionaire, and he or his family members have never had… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Question everyone in authority, and see that you get sensible answers to your questions ... questioning does not mean the end of… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience,… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don't be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed, counts at the tips of his fingers how… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic. — Gemma Chan Copy Share Image
...it is sensible to begin by asking the beginning questions, why imagine power in the first place, and what is the relationship… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
You can drive yourself crazy trying to peer into a person's soul--or you can do the sensible thing: ask not what inner… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
If a man achieves worldly success and does not blend into his life a program of self-improvement to bring about a sensible… — John H. Vandenberg Copy Share Image
“The world’s most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within you. The worst part is you can’t even tell who… — Chetan Bhagat Copy Share Image
I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed,… — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Every sensible banker understands that Greece should not have received any more money: a bankrupt state that can never be expected to… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
“That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal: from which it follows that irregularity - that is to say, the unexpected,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Maybe if I'd studied writing instead of anthropology, I'd be more sensible. You know - pick a genre, follow the rules, stay… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, it occurred to me that my feelings towards the little man were distinctly maternal. Good God, I thought, how utterly revolting,… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership. — Tony Blair 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
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
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
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
