Sensible Quotes
Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
I'm a Pisces, and Pisces have this weird inability to be completely spontaneous. We're too conscious of our actions. I've always been way too sensible for my own good.
How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.
The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.
But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.
The most sensible skill that I can give to somebody born in 2003 is a perfect command of Mandarin.
'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever
We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.
Every sensible banker understands that Greece should not have received any more money: a bankrupt state that can never be expected to repay loans is not a good debtor.
If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child,for example, is also a more humane place for adults.
No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergyman, if you can give increase of life to others and make them sensible of that fact, they will be attracted to you, and you will get rich.
As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.
The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment.
It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.
Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.
We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us.
The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. If you don't hurt anybody else, what you do is your own business.
Being conservative has never been regarded as old-fashioned. But if you fight for a sensible step in the right direction which others has deserted you will be branded "reactionary".
Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.
In cold weather a good rule is to light your fire first before doing anything else. It is always more sensible to keep yourself warm rather than trying to thaw yourself out later.
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
Stop telling yourself that dreams don't matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible.
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.
A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
I am young! Being creative and keeping your brain occupied is very sensible because if you don't you die, slowly.
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
If you avoid the killer diseases and keep the degenerative ones under control with sensible diet and exercise and whatever chemotherapy you need to stay in balance, you can live nearly forever.
A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off
In fact, merely writing the facts on a piece of paper and stating our problem clearly goes a long way toward helping us to reach a sensible decision.
Your first great duties, you are sensible, are those you owe to Heaven, to your Creator and Redeemer. Let these be ever present to your minds, and exemplified in your lives and conduct.
Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.
Blue was a fanciful, but sensible thing. Like a platypus, or one of those sandwiches that had been cut into circles for a fancy tea party.
The way I see it there are two types of people. Those stupid enough to get ripped off by people selling ringtones and those sensible enough to set up ringtone selling services.
If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.
