Whether something is sensible or not is subjective. What is sensible to me might not be for others. — Radhika Apte Copy Share Image
The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff. — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
“She has a soft spot for houses that look sensible until you get inside.” — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station. — Mireille Enos Copy Share Image
You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in. — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
In fact, merely writing the facts on a piece of paper and stating our problem clearly goes a long way toward helping… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Maybe if I'd studied writing instead of anthropology, I'd be more sensible. You know - pick a genre, follow the rules, stay… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, it occurred to me that my feelings towards the little man were distinctly maternal. Good God, I thought, how utterly revolting,… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What's happening is that the will of the people, the declared opinion of the people, who want more agendas, more ideas, more… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle… Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order. The first, called a Cause, is said… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
People realize that we're very good at sending people to war, but we're not good at taking care of them. And people… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
People should be concerned about installing a more sensible, responsible government. What we [the burmese] need is a government that is accountable… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Our mass media have little difficulty in selling particular interests as those of all sensible men. The political needs of society become… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
In the evaluation of the dominant moods of any historical period it is important to hold fast to the fact that there… — Erik Erikson 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
Writing, for me, is a little like wood carving. You find the lump of tree (the big central theme that gets you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
As Marcus considered various ways to open the subject of Daisy, Swift surprised him with a blunt statement. “My lord, there is… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, no more occasion for war. If this… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
I think the best and perhaps only sensible policy for the future is to prepare society for change and be prepared to… — Lennart Bengtsson 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
It is often said that ‘the germ of all Stalinism was in Bolshevism at its beginning’. Well, I have no objection. Only,… — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing things you can’t do is just sensible.” — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none. — Eden Phillpotts Copy Share Image
Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens. — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community. — William Osler Copy Share Image
“It’s the sensible, logical thing to do, of course, which is why we don’t do it.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image