Sensible Quotes - Page 19

• The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Fall, Aggravation, Firsts

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1993). “My Work: In Retrospect”, p.99, Ignatius Press

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• I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 - shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Shy, Gains

  "Stop Coddling the Super-Rich" by Warren Buffett, www.nytimes.com. August 14, 2011.

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• Why would any sensible human being put meat filled with ammonia in the mouths of their children?

  Jamie Oliver

  Children, Meat, Mouths

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• The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Hate, People, Drink

  Elizabeth Taylor (2015). “A View of the Harbour”, p.86, New York Review of Books

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• "As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell."

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Religion, Morality

  "Endymion". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Ch. 81, 1880.

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• It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the
  mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.

  Vernon Howard

  Years, Feet, Thousand

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• The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pleasure, Delicate, Promoting

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• I couldn't care less what anybody says about me. I live my life, especially my personal life, strictly for myself... Whatever you do, you're going to be criticized. I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you.

  Johnny Carson

  Life, Trying, Care

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still, and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance, that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign, and not like an interloper or a valet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Home, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.131, Penguin

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• He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.

  Chanakya

  Wise, Children, Men

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• A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess.

  Oleg Romanishin

  Success, Winning, Self

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• The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Secret, Finding Yourself, Criticism

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• To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals.

  Ellis Peters

  Heaven, Have Faith, Protection

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• If a man achieves worldly success and does not blend into his life a program of self-improvement to bring about a sensible balance, he no doubt will end up as a failure.

  John H. Vandenberg

  Men, Self, Doubt

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• The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good.

  Betty Dodson

  Thinking, Views, Media

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• This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.

  John Henry Newman

  Party, Men, Judging

  'Apologia pro Vita Sua' (1864) 'History of My Religious Opinions from 1833 to 1839'

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• True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.

  John Tillotson

  Inspirational, Thinking, Imperfection

  John Tillotson (1720). “The works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ... containing fifty four sermons and discourses, on several occasions”, p.412

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• I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some people’s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design, something pretty. That was not the idea. The idea was to interpret science sensibly, with good proportion, good balance and good lighting, so we could understand it.

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Ideas, People

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• Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.

  Herman Melville

  Asylums

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war”, p.41

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• No sensible author wants anything but praise.

  A. A. Milne

  Want, Praise

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• Sometimes I wish I were less sensible.

  Stella McCartney

  Wish, Sometimes

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• The way I see it there are two types of people. Those stupid enough to get ripped off by people selling ringtones and those sensible enough to set up ringtone selling services.

  Claire Weekes

  Stupid, Two, People

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• Few criminals die sensible of their crimes.

  Norm MacDonald

  Criminals, Crime, Dies

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• In summer we live out of doors, and have only impulses and feelings, which are all for action, and must wait commonly for the stillness and longer nights of autumn and winter before any thought will subside; we are sensible that behind the rustling leaves, and the stacks of grain, and the bare clusters of the grape, there is the field of a wholly new life, which no man has lived; that even this earth was made for more mysterious and nobler inhabitants than men and women. In the hues of October sunsets, we see the portals to other mansions than those which we occupy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Sunset, Autumn

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• In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Nature, Fishing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.66, Harvard University Press

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