Quotes About Sensible

I did get introduced to the financial markets while I was in college. And I think I learned also how to sort of filter out all of the nonrational, or nonsensible, noise and sort of concentrate on what matters, and that's really what markets are about.

Nonsensical decisions are made all the time in football and then really sensible decisions are made all the time. It really is the maddest business but everyone knows that. We all love it.

I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.

I'm a conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.

What is common becomes sense, but what is sensible doesn't always become common.

Reasonable, sensible men can always make a reasonable scheme appear such to other reasonable men.

Ay, we are alike, you and I. The books, always the books. And for themselves, not to become rich or famous like sensible people. Are we not foolish? But it is a pleasant folly and a sometimes blameless vice.

Welcome to JG Ballard's future, fast becoming a consensus of its own, wherein the future is intrinsically banal. It is, essentially, the sensible position to take right now.

The next time you find yourself in the midst of some national hysteria with sensible people losing their heads, with legislatures in panic and with the media buying it all and amplifying it with a kind of megaphone effect, remember this: Remember that a people—even the most sensible people—can all lose their heads at once.

Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon.

Gisele thought it a little harsh of Nigel to be questioning her and expecting sensible answers after all she had just endured.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that's all.

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It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

It is one of the enduring ironies of history that established systems of hierarchy rarely find it necessary to rely on sensible defenses as an essential means of maintaining power.

Don't talk, Snicket," Theodora said. "Fools talk while wise people listen, so listen up and I'll tell you how we will solve this case sensibly and properly.

Don't talk, Snicket," Theodora said. "Fools talk while wise people listen, so listen up and I'll tell you how we will solve this case sensibly and properly.

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.  Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

I am not romantic, you know; I never was.

He is just what a young man ought to be, said she, sensible, good-humoured, lively; and I never saw such happy manners!—so much ease, with such perfect good breeding!