I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but… — Jane Campion 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
We try to make sensible decisions with the facts in front of us. The problem with sensible decisions is that so is… — Paul Arden Copy Share Image
When the masses become better informed about science, they will feel less need for help form supernatural Higher Powers. The need for… — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia 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
“And I could liken you to a lot of things But I always come around 'Cause in the end I'm a sensible… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
The most happy women within their homes are those who have married sensible men. The latter suffer themselves to be governed with… — Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne Copy Share Image
In my book, 'Let Patients Help,' one chapter is titled 'Let patients vote on what's worth the cost.' That's sensible, right? In… — Dave deBronkart Copy Share Image
Is anyone really surprised that Warren, who is the ultimate embodiment of concentrated decision-making power, picked somebody [Bill and Melinda Gates] who… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am already sensible of decay in the power of walking, and find my memory not so faithful as it used to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is as much wisdom in soliciting good counsel as in giving it. The most sensible people are not reluctant to consider… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable 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
Let's be clear: Neither Secretary Powell or I opposed the notion of removing Saddam Hussein by force, but we wanted to avoid… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
They sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, Logical, oh responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where… — Roger Hodgson Copy Share Image
The most sensible person is the one who knows to put his pride in the pocket when he realizes he was wrong… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
I knew what I had to do as party leader had to be sensible and relate to the real situation we were… — David Trimble Copy Share Image
I always recommend a sensible diet, including lots of carbohydrates and avoiding too much fat. Dancers don't need different fuel from other… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
We need sensible people in the system, who are honest and passionate about the country and will not fall pray to corruption. — Manini Mishra Copy Share Image
If it's advisable to never share own problems with others as sages say that majority don't care, then it's more sensible to… — Anuj Copy Share Image
I live a super-healthy lifestyle not because it's sensible or that I'm contrite, but because I need to keep my focus on… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
I shall never have a bath again," I said. "Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said. "Once a month is… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
This is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damaging impact on competitiveness. — Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham Copy Share Image
It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
More often than not in poetry I find difficulty to be gratuitous and show-offy and camouflaging, experimental to a kind of insane… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
For, in truth, an image is only dead matter shaped by the craftsman's hand. But we have no sensible image of sensible… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
I got into university to study graphic design, and I got into drama school as well, so I had the choice whether… — Chris Geere Copy Share Image
There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Working is the best thing for me because I'm borderline ADHD, so I need some kind of focus or I go a… — Jaime Winstone Copy Share Image
So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies… — Thomas Dolby Copy Share Image
[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My first notebook was a Big Five tablet, given to me [at age five] by my mother with the sensible suggestion that… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning,… — Walter Ulbricht Copy Share Image
If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches… — Frank Gaffney Copy Share Image