Sensible Quotes · Page 6

I really believe that beauty comes from health - sensible eating and exercise.

— Dita Von Teese

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

— Thomas Carlyle

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!

— William Shakespeare

Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.

— Elizabeth Goudge

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I try and strike a balance between being sensible and sensitive.

— Rana Daggubati

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

— Oscar Wilde

One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is…

— Mercedes Lackey

All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest…

— Victor Ponta

“Nothing is ever so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.”

— Jean Giraudoux

So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers…

— David Knopfler

I am young! Being creative and keeping your brain occupied is very sensible because if you don't you die, slowly.

— Anthony Hopkins

The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to…

— Leigh Hunt

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

— Lloyd Alexander

We're never going to have respectful and reverential relationships with the planet- and sensible policies about what we put in the air,…

— Elise M. Boulding

Question everyone in authority, and see that you get sensible answers to your questions ... questioning does not mean the end of…

— Winifred Holtby

Michael Bloomberg is a sensible guy. He's just privileged. He's a goddamn billionaire, and he or his family members have never had…

— Talib Kweli

The character is important, of course, but I like when there's intelligence in a movie. I like when it's, how do you…

— Lea Seydoux

For those who fancy that government's projects are uniquely important, or for those who imagine that holding government office makes someone unusually…

— Donald J. Boudreaux

I am sensible that he who means to do mankind a real service must set down with the determination of putting up,…

— Thomas Paine

Karl Popper once advised a student that if he wanted to reap intellectual fame, he should write endless pages of obscure, high-flown…

— Anthony de Jasay

IMPORTANT Book reading is a solitary and sedentary pursuit, and those who do are cautioned that a book should be used as…

— Garrison Keillor

A Seed for Contemplation: Creative people who cherish the gift of life often slip into the secret chambers of the creative mind.…

— Harold Klemp

Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and…

— David Hume

The truth is that no one who hasn't actually experienced the senseless chaos and violence of combat can possibly understand it, but…

— Khaled Hosseini

Balanced, sensible nutrition: eat food, not too much, mostly plants, a healthy diet ala Michael Pollan, modern physical activity on a daily…

— David Katz

...a very terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people…

— Noam Chomsky

But although the attractive virtue of the earth extends upwards, as has been said, so very far, yet if any stone should…

— Johannes Kepler

The rational herdsman concludes that the only sensible course for him to pursue is to add another animal to his herd. And…

— Garrett Hardin

Trees and flowers were often more meaningful to me than people. They always helped me, consoled me, giving the soul a chance…

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic.

— Edward Albee

Marriage is like war - an experience that no adventurous man would evade, and no sensible man repeat.

— Ursula Parrott

It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.

— Mary Wesley

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

— Oscar Wilde

Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

— Bertrand Russell

A loose horse is any horse sensible enough to get rid of its rider at an early stage and carry on unencumbered.

— Clive James

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

— Frank Herbert

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

— Jane Austen