Sensible Quotes - Page 13

• I live a sensible life. You know, I don't take on too much.

  Dick Cavett

  Too Much, Knows

  "On the Couch... with Dick Cavett". Interview with Deborah Serani, www.psychologytoday.com. April 21, 2011.

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• When you live in a small house with five younger siblings, it's actually far more sensible- and much quicker- to cry alone.

  Caitlin Moran

  Sibling, House, Cry

  Caitlin Moran (2012). “How to Be a Woman”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• There's no doubt that I respect the Second Amendment, that I also believe there's an individual right to bear arms. That is not in conflict with sensible, commonsense regulation.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Doubt, Second Amendment

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• What's happening is that the will of the people, the declared opinion of the people, who want more agendas, more ideas, more sensible redirections reforms in our country, are being thwarted by the mechanism of keeping third-party candidates, who are on more than enough States theoretically to get an electoral vote majority, to keep them off the mass media, the commercial media, to keep them off the debates.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Party, Media

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• I remember asking my mother if she believed in reincarnation and she said that that sounded very sensible, and I thought, yes, it does to me too. So I always believed in it. I can't remember when I didn't.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Mother, Doe, Asking

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• There's a lot of disputes around the world, a lot of territorial conflicts around the world. But Israel is the only country in the world whose capital is not recognized. I don't think the United States recognizing Jerusalem as a capital will prevent any sort of peace agreement from happening in the future. It's not actually a sensible argument. What it will do is it will right a historic wrong. Something that should have happened 69 years ago will finally happen. And then we have to get about the process of trying to advance peace between the parties.

  Ron Dermer

  Country, Party, Thinking

  Source: www.politico.com

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• A real strategy is a coherent mix of policy and action designed to overcome a significant challenge. So a sensible employee might indeed say that they have no idea what the organization's strategy is - because it seems to have none. Senior managers' so-called "strategies" are heavy with aspirations and goals, but light on how resources and strengths will be combined to achieve them.

  Richard P. Rumelt

  Senior, Real, Goal

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I arrived at my way of "working" as a way of visually approximating what I feel the tone of fiction to be in prose versus the tone one might use to write biography; I would never do a biographical story using the deliberately synthetic way of cartooning I use to write fiction. I try to use the rules of typography to govern the way that I "draw," which keeps me at a sensible distance from the story as well as being a visual analog to the way we remember and conceptualize the world.

  Chris Ware

  Distance, Writing, Trying

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• A good American friend of mine who has lived in India for many years, working as a journalist, was recently denied entry to the country because he wrote on Kashmir. This is a reflection of fractures within society. Pakistan, too, has to focus on the Lashkar [Lashkar-i-Taiba] and other similar groups and work towards some sort of sensible compromise on Kashmir.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Reflection, Years

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• I think the best way is to keep stressing, that, as we build out a new energy system, one of the best things about it, if we do it right, will be that it will be more local, more democratic, more distributed, and, in the long run, much more economically sensible.

  Bill McKibben

  Running, Stress, Thinking

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• [Theresa May] is very sensible and I think that's a good thing at this point in time.

  Kate Bush

  Thinking, May, Good Things

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think Romney's foreign policy is sensible.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Foreign Policy, Romney

  Source: www.npr.org

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• At the age of 21 I was so sensible and became a nun. I am very grateful to myself for that.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Grateful, Age, Nun

  Source: fpmt.org

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• In the great majority of cases we simply do not know enough about the industry or company to come to sensible judgments-in that situation we pass.

  Warren Buffett

  Majority, Judgment, Enough

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• A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many years ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Mentor, Majority

  "The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns". Book by John C. Bogle, March 05, 2007.

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• The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He likes his candidate to be sensible, vigorous, and, above all, what he calls 'magnetic,' and does not value, because he sees no need for, originality or profundity, a fine culture or a wide knowledge.

  James Bryce

  Needs, Culture, Mediocrity

  James Bryce (1920). “The American Commonwealth: Vol. 1: The National Government”, p.43, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.

  Hippocrates

  Men, Thinking, Blessing

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• Jane Austin was a complete and most sensible lady, but a very incomplete and rather insensible (not senseless) woman. If this is heresy, I cannot help it.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Austin, Helping, Incomplete

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• You don't get rich, you don't often have much fun. Sometimes you get beaten up or shot at or tossed into the jail house. Once in a long while you get dead. Every other month you decide to give it up and find some sensible occupation while you can still walk without shaking your head. Then the door buzzer rings and you open the inner door to the waiting room and there stands a new face with a new problem, a new load of grief, and a small piece of money.

  Raymond Chandler

  Fun, Grief, Jail

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.147, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• It's cool that we got rid of that, but we got rid of everything - the encouraging pat on the back or even a hug which I find can be acceptable in some situations. I know that it's a sensible subject and that we're trying to avoid nasty things, but [you can] have as many rules as you want, there will still be stuff happening anyway.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Hug, Trying, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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• The foundation for a new era was laid but yesterday. The human was given its first chance to become truly civilised when it took courage to question all things and made 'knowledge and understanding' the foundation upon which to create a more reasonable and sensible society of human beings.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Yesterday, Understanding, Foundation

  Hendrik Willem Van Loon (2016). “The Story of Mankind: Juvenile History”, p.205, VM eBooks

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• Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Birth Control, Method

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Self Restraint V. Self-indulgence”

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• The core of America is not racist. It is not hostile to women. It is increasingly offended by gay bashing. Yet it abhors government waste. It believes strongly in fiscal responsibility such as balanced budgets. It is pro-economic growth. It is concerned about the environment. It is intolerant of people on welfare who disdain the notion of work. But it wants poor kids to have school lunches and it wants to spend money to have good schools. In sum, most Americans are sensible, good-hearted, and prudent. The issue, then, is whether there is a political party that can welcome them home.

  Paul Tsongas

  Party, Believe, Home

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• Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

  Bertrand Russell

  Ignored, Quiet, Sane

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• ...it is sensible to begin by asking the beginning questions, why imagine power in the first place, and what is the relationship between one's motive for imagining power and the image one ends up with.

  Edward Said

  Asking, Firsts, Imagine

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