Quotes About Sensible

Going into his master's house to ravish his daughter's maidenhood—at her request? He had never heard of a less sensible prospect.

I think I'm pretty much down to earth, and I'm not really way, way out there.

I've never been a dreamer.

So here we sit on the island of misfit lovers. The broken, the maimed, the malformed, who still, all sensible evidence to the contrary, believe in love, crave love.

I'm very lucky in my constituency. I have very grown up sensible members who don't agree with me, but we never have a quarrel. I absolutely respect their views.

The lucky village of Sodeto, in the kingdom of Aragon, is a cluster of sensible houses spackled together off the main road, curtained behind a pine copse.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

First and foremost, Austen was sensible. She didn't feed her romantic imagination to excess.

Clara was that rare combination: she was sensible and sensitive.

As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.

If we were sensible we would seek death--the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

He suddenly became convinced that if he didn't do something sensible, something to put his mind to some use, then before he knew it he would be wondering round the streets having fights with himself and inviting domestic animals to social occasions too.

Stand on Zanzibar is an information overload on topics that sensible people would never want to learn about.

It was an astonishing fantasy but it showed me what even apparently sensible people can believe if they really want to. I

She'd even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she'd ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets' Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head.

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

There is a social responsibility to take care of vulnerable people. It seems that a sensible social responsibility is obligatory education, but also decent education, and that is not happening.

They sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, Logical, oh responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, Oh clinical, oh intellectual, cynical...

I'm very logical.

My dad is a very logical person.

I know it's thankless to be sensible in the face of someone's primitive distrust.

What if it blows this way?" "It won't." "Just this one time." "It won't. Why should it?" He paused a beat and said in a flat tone, "They just closed part of the interstate." "They would want to do that, of course." "Why?" "They just would. A sensible precaution. A way to facilitate movement of service vehicles and such. Any number of reasons that have nothing to do with wind or wind direction.

Never underestimate the power of social pressures on behavior, causing otherwise sensible people to do things they know are wrong and possibly dangerous.

And this is either a completely disastrous question or the most sensible one I've ever asked in all my life.