GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to… — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. If you don't… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
As I wouldn't wear a costume, I couldn't imagine him wanting to wear one. And seeing that the greater part of my… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It now remains for the United States government to set a sensible example to the world by offering a bonus or a… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
I have decided that now is not the right time for me to run for the leadership - though I remain completely… — Jeremy Hunt Copy Share Image
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
He suddenly became convinced that if he didn’t do something sensible, something to put his mind to some use, then before he… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned if the accession be sudden, and… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges, and who takes… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The first merit of pictures is the effect they produce on the mind; and the first step of a sensible man should… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to… — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to… — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
For more than a half a century, we know that we prospered because of a bipartisan consensus on defense and foreign policy.… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit,… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
When consequentialist theories are developed in terms of an equally shallow psychology of the good - such as a crude form of… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There is a small minority of well-educated people with relatively sensible views on economics, and an extremely tiny minority of economists with… — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
If we're going to make a politically responsible and a scientifically sensible claim it should not be stop the world exactly where… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
“We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
The northern nations who burst the barriers of the Roman Empire and spread themselves over the most flourishing countries of Europe soon… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
An honest, sensible, humane man, . . . laboring to do good rather than be rich, to be useful rather than make… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Some of Kant's particular moral opinions, either because he shared the prejudices of his time, or because of his own personal crotchets,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
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