Ours is a stable country. Ours is a sensible country. And ours is a fundamentally decent country. — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
I'm really sensible with my money. So I would like to own my own house rather than rent. — Scarlett Moffatt Copy Share Image
Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
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
The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
I think there's only one sensible place for a person to be at 5:30 in the morning. That's in bed. And what… — Derek Clayton Copy Share Image
Repudiating the sensible world, which he neither sees himself nor believes from those who have, the Peripatetic joins combat by childish quibbling… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant… — Jodhi May Copy Share Image
They sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I… — Roger Hodgson 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
For more than thirty years, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd have been gardening with extraordinary, indeed legendary, results. Part memoir, part omnium-gatherum… — Philip Gambone Copy Share Image
Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
I think 'Elbow' were considered successful even before [2008's] Seldom Seen Kid because we were living off the band. We have a… — Guy Garvey Copy Share Image
The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb,… — Anonymous 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
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
Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases… — Herman Wouk 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
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