You are allowed to draw lines even if your feelings are irrational. Part of the marvelous business of being an adult human… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In the evaluation of the dominant moods of any historical period it is important to hold fast to the fact that there… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
It can no longer be maintained that the properties of any one thing in the universe are independent of the existence or… — Lee Smolin 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
There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed… — Andrew Eldritch Copy Share Image
My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The characters in the four-lettered word FACT consist of seventy-five percent ACT, so it is always sensible to see the character of… — Anuj Copy Share Image
Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been… — John Locke 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
Dogs are wonderful, and in many ways unique. But they are remarkably unremarkable in their intellectual and experiential capacities. Pigs are every… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in… — Edward Jay Epstein 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
As I wouldn't wear a costume, I couldn't imagine him wanting to wear one. And seeing that the greater part of my… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If, therefore, man has come into the world to search for God and, if he has found Him, to adhere to Him… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community. — William Osler 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
And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements.… — Sherwood Boehlert Copy Share Image
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
