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
When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff. — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Now that children don't till your fields or take you in when you're incontinent, there is no sensible reason to have them,… — Lionel Shriver 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
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
The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say, 'As we have nothing sensible… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
My mind struggled to formulate a coherent though, any thought. I opened my mouth. "Your pajamas have Eeyore on them." "I like… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry… — Gail Collins 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
Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters - where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
I've always been sensible with my money. I can't say I'm a business genius. — Jasper Carrott Copy Share Image
An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
I'm a Pisces, and Pisces have this weird inability to be completely spontaneous. We're too conscious of our actions. I've always been… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I don't think any sensible person would disagree that the invasion of Iraq led to the massive level of instability that we're… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Our mass media have little difficulty in selling particular interests as those of all sensible men. The political needs of society become… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I arrived at my way of "working" as a way of visually approximating what I feel the tone of fiction to be… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
