Quotes About Sensibly

When the driver of a car is overtaking a truck on a narrow road, for example, adult passengers quite sensibly stop talking.

Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because the elite makes most of the progress. You should worry about people who produce really novel inventions, not pedantic hacks.

I loathe law. It seems to me as if it were merely an elaborate series of obstacles to doing things sensibly. And yet, of course, after all, one must have formalities, just as in flying you have to make arrangements for starting and stopping. But it is a beastly nuisance to have to attend to them.

To seek trouble - this is not courage, this is madness. Courage is the willingness of man to sensibly face the troubles he cannot avoid.

Selfishness has made most people so mentally blind, virtually deaf and sensibly dumb that they can't see, hear and speak anything besides and beyond their individual profit in everything and literally do not understand that which is actually of everyone's benefit.

The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.

Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances.

Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen.

Incidentally, the idea that we use only 10 percent of our brains is a myth. No one knows where the idea came from, but it has never been true or close to true. You may not use it all terribly sensibly, but you employ all your brain in one way or another.

Name?' 'Mine?' the arrested man hastily responded, his whole being expressing a readiness to answer sensibly, without provoking further wrath. The prosecutor said softly: 'I know my own. Don't pretend to be stupider than you are. Yours.

In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.

You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but that's not what's being done.

Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.

No one in 1993 would have argued that the EPA was a perfect agency, or that there weren't some regulations that needed to be revamped; even its supporters had said as much. But the tobacco industry didn't want to make the EPA work better and more sensibly; they wanted to bring it down.