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Quotes About Sensible

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.
~ Elizabeth Emken
Giving requires good sense. [Lat., Rest est ingeniosa dare.]
~ Ovid
Drinking freshly made juices and eating enough whole foods to provide adequate fiber is a sensible approach to a healthful diet.
~ Jay Kordich
A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.
~ William Osler
Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.
~ Hippocrates, Aphorisms
We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.
~ Nan Hayworth
If you want to feel good, be rational.
~ Ayn Rand
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
~ Harry Seidler
The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things
~ Terry Pratchett, The Truth
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
~ Jane Austen
I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.
~ Jane Campion
Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible.
~ Janette Rallison
Fairy's side note: Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible. At least not in high school. Those traits become attractive much later on, when guys finally realize they're not living somebody else's life. So
~ Janette Rallison
down-to-earth.
~ Jason Fried
They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness.
~ Edmund Burke
Also, there was a dash and latent energy about him that set two hundred and five girls to re-reading Laura Jean Libbey with a new and personal interest. Lida was not one of the two hundred and five. She was sensible. And her ambitions were all sane, not based on literary trash.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
But that's always the way, isn't it? It's easy to be sensible for other people, but you can't always be sensible for yourself.
~ Alex Shearer
A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I kind of look at things from a very common-sense point of view.
~ John Corabi
With a little bit of common sense, anything is achievable.
~ Dick Strawbridge
I talk common sense.
~ George Blanda
Gas is almost a give-away in the U.S. at the moment. They've gone for fracking in a big way. This is what makes me very cross with the greens for trying to knock it... Let's be pragmatic and sensible and get Britain to switch everything to methane. We should be going mad on it.
~ James Lovelock
Les sciences telles que les comprennent les modernes, c'est-à-dire les sciences profanes, ne supposent effectivement, d'une façon générale, rien de plus ni d'autre qu'une élaboration rationnelle de données sensibles ; ce sont donc elles qui sont véritablement "empiriques" quant à leur point de départ ; et l'on pourrait dire que les modernes confondent indûment ce point de départ de leurs sciences avec l'origine de toute science.
~ Rene Guenon