Sensible Quotes - page 2

It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership. (Tony Blair)
I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness. View quote
Harold Brodkey
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. View quote
Harry Seidler
I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
In other words, truth is not only a matter of offense, in that it makes certain assertions. It is also a matter of defense in that it must be able to make a cogent and sensible response to the counterpoints that are raised. View quote
Ravi Zacharias
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. View quote
Montesquieu
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. View quote
Apuleius
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. View quote
Georges Clemenceau
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
To have two Legislative Assemblies in the United Kingdom would, in my opinion, be an intolerable mischief; and I think no sensible man can wish for two within the limits of the present United Kingdom who does not wish the United Kingdom to become two or more nations, entirely separate from each other. View quote
John Bright
I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average proportion of the numbers of each is not to my advantage. (John Ruskin)
[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis. View quote
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
It is possible to express the laws of thermodynamics in the form of independent principles, deduced by induction from the facts of observation and experiment, without reference to any hypothesis as to the occult molecular operations with which the sensible phenomena may be conceived to be connected; and that course will be followed in the body of the present treatise. But, in giving a brief historical sketch of the progress of thermodynamics, the progress of the hypothesis of thermic molecular motions cannot be wholly separated from that of the purely inductive theory. View quote
William John Macquorn Rankine
I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy...a banana republic. View quote
Paul Keating
It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul. View quote
Sarah Grimké
We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and are now blighting the most promising minds of the next generation. This is a major crisis if there ever was one, and every sensible person must help bring it to an end. View quote
Camille Paglia
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. View quote
James Baldwin
Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists. (Jack Vance)
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters. View quote
Walter Lippmann
My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level. View quote
China Miéville
After listening to the debate on unemployment I can see a danger that Liberals lose to the Tories their claim to have new and sensible ideas and are left saying "Me too" to a Socialist conventional wisdom which is failing...The salient need of this country-to produce more and much more efficiently-hardly figured on the agenda. View quote
Jo Grimond
What do I believe in? Belief means faith, and there's only one damn thing in the world I have any faith in. That's the idea of American democracy, because it seems to me so obvious that that's the only sensible way to run human affairs. View quote
Rex Stout