Sensible Quotes

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.

My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

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

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

It's time for the sensible center to rise up and push for a rational approach to our fiscal challenges.

I've got to be sensible sometimes.

Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.

I like when people know who they are, know their limitations and what they want to do. It's the same thing for me.

Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible... he's just a reasonable, sensible human being.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.

The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good.

My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.

We have sensible fans and sensible policies.

It's a sense in Minnesota that we need to get back to common sense. We need to get back to taking sensible looks at positions and understanding the proper role of government.

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.

It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.