The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
So many actors are lively-minded, creative people who just tread water in this awful way, waiting for the phone to ring and… — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
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Habits of thought lead us to brush aside descriptions of cruelty to animals as emotional, for "animal-lovers only"; or if not that,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
It's part of the Constitution. People have the right to bear arms. Then the restrictions of it have to be reasonable and… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Canada stands out as making a sensible and positive contribution to the world. I'm saying that maybe because of its inclination toward… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
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I'm in favour of a sensible development of response units and their deployment in any circumstance where there may be a risk… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Supermarkets didn't even want to talk to me about how much food they were wasting. I'd been round the back. I'd seen… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
The look she gave me reminded me of when is was seven and I'd proudly informed out housekeeper that I'd donated half… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
If we're going to talk about our businesses, we're going to have to talk about them within the constraints of the disclosure… — Barry Diller Copy Share Image
He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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Men of the most robust make, observe that in looking upon sore eyes they often feel a very sensible soreness in their… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
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To develop the creative attitude, analyze and focus on the wanted SOLUTION; seek out and fill your mind with the FACTS; write… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
According to polls, a majority (around 60+ percent) opposes the radar base. But it's not necessarily the sensible part of the Czech… — Lubos Motl Copy Share Image
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What do I believe in? Belief means faith, and there's only one damned thing in the world I have any faith in.… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
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Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some people’s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design,… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The aim of science is to apprehend this purely intelligible world as a thing in itself, an object which is what it… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
No doubt, anarchy, once established, might not last forever. But if your house is on fire, the sensible course of action is… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them - the sense that we have a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In our sensible zeal to keep religion from dominating our politics, we have created a political and legal culture that presses the… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
Little minds try to defend everything at once, but sensible people look at the main point only; they parry the worst blows… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom,… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Time flies so fast after youth is past that we cannot accomplish one half the many things we have in mind or… — Theodore Gordon Copy Share Image
The theory of Reincarnation, which originated in India, has been welcomed in other countries. Without doubt, it is one of the most… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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You are allowed to draw lines even if your feelings are irrational. Part of the marvelous business of being an adult human… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Dogs are wonderful, and in many ways unique. But they are remarkably unremarkable in their intellectual and experiential capacities. Pigs are every… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
![“You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom, with all their virtue--and are very conversable and agreeable--their educations are more finished.” quote by Fanny Burney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/953/fanny-burney-7403_devil_you-have-sensible-women-here-in-england_2177257.jpg)
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