Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my… — John Milton Copy Share Image
You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either. — Van Dyke Parks Copy Share Image
I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If it suits [God] to be a deity that we must seek without being forced to, would it not have been sensible… — Richard Dawkins 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
I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and… — John Ruskin 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
If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Most people, when they imagine New England, think about old colonial homes, white houses with black shutters, whales, and sexually morbid WASPs… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Here we were supposedly changing the world for the better in the Sixties, but as we get 40 years further down the… — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
Waste cannot be accurately told, though we are sensible how destructive it is. Economy, on the one hand, by which a certain… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
I was organizing a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference in October 1994 and I got a message that the Prime… — David Trimble 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
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
“She felt like she’d done so much work to appear as eccentric as possible, and still, when it came down to it,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of… — Jane Austen 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
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
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
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
I am convinced that a calm, quiet and harmonious interior can be as beneficial to health as a sensible diet and regular… — Kelly Hoppen Copy Share Image
Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the… — John Bunyan 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
A sensible climate policy would emphasize building resilience into our capacity to adapt to climate changes - whether cooling or warming; whether… — Steven F. Hayward Copy Share Image
It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Being conservative has never been regarded as old-fashioned. But if you fight for a sensible step in the right direction which others… — Poul Henningsen Copy Share Image
Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Feelings aren't sensible. Sometimes you fall in love with people who don't make sense. And the ones who do make sense turn… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force, because it… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible... he's just a reasonable,… — James Belushi Copy Share Image
If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in… — Pratibha Patil Copy Share Image