A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these… — Oleg Romanishin Copy Share Image
He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the… — Andrew Jackson Downing Copy Share Image
If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
No matter what we predict for our futures, we're always wrong anyway. The only sensible thing to do is to live this… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Blue was a fanciful, but sensible thing. Like a platypus, or one of those sandwiches that had been cut into circles for… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
After listening to the debate on unemployment I can see a danger that Liberals lose to the Tories their claim to have… — Jo Grimond 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
Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The wildest dreams of wild men, even, are not the less true, though they may not recommend themselves to the sense which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But he is an Italian," was Umberto's sensible reply. "He doesn't care if you break some law a little bit, as long… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
I've been blessed with pretty strong stamina and healthy genes, so I'd call myself sensible. I've had regular mammograms ever since I… — Harriet Walter Copy Share Image
People might just decide, 'Yeah, I'll diversify my portfolio. I'll live in a rental.' That is a very sensible thing for many… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
Most people, once the money started getting bigger, thought we would buy a millionaire's house looking out at the sea - but… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
I remember asking my mother if she believed in reincarnation and she said that that sounded very sensible, and I thought, yes,… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God's help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who… — Betty Dodson 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
I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Benign environmentalists are opposed to pollution, as all sensible people are; malign environmentalists are opposed to energy and most of what it… — Kevin D. Williamson Copy Share Image
Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In short, Anarchism means a condition or society where all men and women are free, and where all enjoy equally the benefits… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Liberals want to live downtown. All over America - in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Georgetown - there are crowds of liberals… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A real strategy is a coherent mix of policy and action designed to overcome a significant challenge. So a sensible employee might… — Richard P. Rumelt Copy Share Image
What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear,"… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Your fate is writ clear;you will be murdered. I cannot conceive how it comes about that you were not murdered long since!… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the… — Richard Cumberland Copy Share Image
You can stick with a few clear-cut values, which are stronger than a multitude of values and will obviously yield a stronger… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
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