Sensible Quotes - Page 22

• She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.

  C. S. Lewis

  Doe, Should, Remembered

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• I shall never have a bath again," I said. "Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said. "Once a month is quite enough for a sensible child." It was at times like these that I loved my grandmother more than ever.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Grandmother, Times Like These

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• I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream...he realizes that he's gone just about as far as talent or fortune will take him. The dream will not happen, and he now faces the choice of accepting this fact like a grownup and moving on to more sensible pursuits, or refusing the truth and ending up bitter, quarrelsome, and slightly pathetic.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Dream, Moving

  "The Audacity of Hope". Book by Barack Obama, www.npr.org. October 17, 2006.

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• As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers for the middle-aged or elderly writer whose thoughts should more properly be turned to graver matters, occupying himself with the trivial concerns of imaginary people.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Real, Men, Occupy Yourself

  "Cakes And Ale".

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• If you tell me I'm sensible in addition to normal and wise, I'm going to punch you in the stomach.

  Nora Roberts

  Wise, Normal, Stomach

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• The nice thing about the queen of Flanders' daughter, had been that she did not laugh at him. A lot of people laughed at you when you went after the Questing Beast - and never caught it - but Piggy never laughed. She seemed to understand at once how interesting it was, and made several sensible suggestions about the way to trap it. Naturally, one did not pretend to be clever or anything, but it was nice not to be laughed at. One was doing one's best.

  T. H. White

  Daughter, Queens, Clever

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.248, Penguin

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• The sensible part of me wanted to dissect my emotions, overthinking and overcomplicating my reaction to Jev.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Overthinking, Emotion, Reactions

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child,for example, is also a more humane place for adults.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Eye, Cities

  Richard Louv (1990). “Childhood's Future”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's part of the Constitution. People have the right to bear arms. Then the restrictions of it have to be reasonable and sensible. You can't just remove that right. You've got to regulate, consistent with the Second Amendment.

  Rudy Giuliani

  People, Second Amendment, Arms

  "He's Ready! Rudy Giuliani Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. February 6, 2007.

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• To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.

  Horace

  Jobs, Half, Boldness

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 2, l. 40

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• No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Advice, Bees, Subjects

  Elbert Hubbard (1914). “So Here Then Cometh Pig-pen Pete; Or, Some Chums of Mine”

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• Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly ever see them. The other is that humans are very good at not seeing things they know aren't there. And, since sensible humans know that there are no such things as people four inches high, a gnome who doesn't want to be seen probably won't be seen... Wings.

  Terry Pratchett

  Wings, People, Four

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• The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You may cite honors and attentions and even money paid, but I would have you note that these were paid a long time after the creator had gone through his struggles.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Struggle, Long

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world, essential loveliness.

  Alan Seeger

  Beauty, Sweet, Light

  Alan Seeger (2001). “Poems”

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• Creativity is not and never has been sensible.

  Julia Cameron

  Creativity, Has Beens

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.147, Souvenir Press

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• This is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damaging impact on competitiveness.

  Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham

  Impact, Wages, Minimum Wage

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• Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding; striving for perfection--in practically anything--is both neurotic and futile.

  Ed Bliss

  Perfection, Excellence, Alternatives

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• But although the attractive virtue of the earth extends upwards, as has been said, so very far, yet if any stone should be at a distance great enough to become sensible compared with the earth's diameter, it is true that on the motion of the earth such a stone would not follow altogether; its own force of resistance would be combined with the attractive force of the earth, and thus it would extricate itself in some degree from the motion of the earth.

  Johannes Kepler

  Distance, Would Be, Earth

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 36), 1920.

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• [Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth?

  Chinua Achebe

  Men, Juicy, Mouths

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• If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.

  Aristotle

  Body, Definitions, Infinite

  Aristotle (2016). “Physics”, p.73, Aristotle

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• There are two threats to reason, the opinion that one knows the truth about the most important things and the opinion that there is no truth about them. Both of these opinions are fatal to philosophy; the first asserts that the quest for truth is unnecessary, while the second asserts that it is impossible. The Socratic knowledge of ignorance, which I take to be the beginning point of all philosophy, defines the sensible middle ground between two extremes.

  Allan Bloom

  Philosophy, Ignorance, Two

  "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Western Civ," p. 18, 1990.

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• It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it.

  George Washington

  Errors, Guilty, Crime

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “(v. 3-8) Comprising correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American Revolution”, p.248

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• A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.

  William Cowper

  Moral, Courtesy, Manners

  William Cowper, “Conversation”

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• I might have arguments with the size of Reagan's military buildup, but given the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, staying ahead of the Soviets militarily seemed a sensible thing to do. Pride in our country, respect for our armed services, a healthy appreciation for the dangers beyond our borders, an insistence that there was no easy equivalence between East and West--in all this I had no quarrel with Reagan. And when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, I had to give the old man his due, even if I never gave him my vote.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Appreciation, Wall

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.289, Canongate Books

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

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Blank, Enjoyed, Ifs

  "Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 71), 2006.

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