Sensible Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of blind despair can never reasonably have place in the sciences; since, however unsuccessful former attempts may have proved, there is still room to hope, that the industry, good fortune, or improved sagacity of succeeding generations may reach discoveries unknown to former ages.

  David Hume

  Discovery, Despair, Age

  David Hume (1999). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.59, Open Court

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• My wife has always supported me in my career, even when there were times when it was more sensible to get a job. It has been her confidence in me that has helped enormously.

  Neil Oliver

  Jobs, Careers, Wife

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• More often than not in poetry I find difficulty to be gratuitous and show-offy and camouflaging, experimental to a kind of insane degree - a difficulty which really ignores the possibility of having a sensible reader.

  Billy Collins

  Insane, Degrees, Kind

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• Dealing with all the questions once the book is out and unchangeable, forces you to permanently give opinions about - in this case - sensible, challenging topics that you are basically only half the expert you would have to be if you wanted to explain yourself in a trustworthy, intelligent and helpful manner.

  Sasa Stanisic

  Book, Intelligent, Giving

  "The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #3: Sasa Stanisic On The Danube". Interview with Michael Zelenko, therumpus.net. January 25, 2010.

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• I went to university and studied English literature, and I forgot about music. I was gonna be a journalist. But then I decided to try and be a backing singer, and my mum was like, "Go for it." If that didn't work, I was gonna go to law school. I was just being boringly sensible; trying to be a singer felt a bit indulgent.

  Jessie Ware

  School, Law, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You are allowed to draw lines even if your feelings are irrational. Part of the marvelous business of being an adult human is that you get to set your own boundaries for whatever reasons you like, without appending a sensible rationale to them.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Feelings, Adults, Lines

  "Backup Mommy". Live chat, www.slate.com. March 8, 2016.

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• I think Pro Tools is pretty analogous to how people composed music on tape back in the 70s, taking little fragments of things and saying, 'How can we organize these in a sensible way'?

  Keith Fullerton Whitman

  Thinking, People, Tape

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When consequentialist theories are developed in terms of an equally shallow psychology of the good - such as a crude form of hedonism - the results can sometimes strike sensible people as revolting and inhuman. People can be reduced to simple repositories of positive or negative sensory states, and their humanity is lost sight of entirely.

  Allen W. Wood

  Simple, Sight, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The sensible thing for everyone to do would be to write all their op-eds and think pieces now so they're ready the day after the election when [Donald] Trump is no longer in the picture. God, I can't wait for that. I hope he just goes away.

  Dylan Moran

  Writing, Thinking, Waiting

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• When I think about what we need to do, we have 33,000 people a year who die from guns. I think we need comprehensive background checks, need to close the online loophole, close the gun show loophole. There's other matters that I think are sensible that are the kind of reforms that would make a difference that are not in any way conflicting with the Second Amendment.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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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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• Put in hours and hours of planning, figure everything down to the last detail, then what? Burglar alarms start going off all overthe place for no sensible reason. A gun fires of its own accord and a man is shot. And a broken-down old house no good for anything but chasing kids has to trip over us. Blind accidents. What can you do against blind accidents?

  Ben Maddow

  Kids, Fate, Gun

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• I had a good, sound upbringing with sensible people around me. I was brought up by intelligent parents. My mother always said to me, "You've got to work at your career and you've got to be good at it. Okay, you've had a bit of success but that's not longevity. You've got to really work for a long time."

  Olivia Newton-John

  Mother, Intelligent, Careers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The characters in the four-lettered word FACT consist of seventy-five percent ACT, so it is always sensible to see the character of a person solely by his ACT or deeds than his words.

  Anuj

  Character, Four, Deeds

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• The wildest dreams of wild men, even, are not the less true, though they may not recommend themselves to the sense which is most common among Englishmen and Americans to-day. It is not every truth that recommends itself to the common sense. Nature has a place for the wild clematis as well as for the cabbage. Some expressions of truth are reminiscent,--others merely sensible, as the phrase is,--others prophetic.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Truth, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.406, Penguin

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• If you refuse to change your job (if you don't like it), the only sensible thing you can do is practice loving it every day.

  Wayne Dyer

  Jobs, Practice, Refuse

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Aug 06, 2015

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• The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember.

  Mason Cooley

  Class, Shoes, Voice

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• Dogs are wonderful, and in many ways unique. But they are remarkably unremarkable in their intellectual and experiential capacities. Pigs are every bit as intelligent and feeling, by any sensible definition of the words. They can't hop into the back of a Volvo, but they can fetch, run and play, be mischievous, and reciprocate affection. So why don't they get to curl up by the fire? Why can't they at least be spared being tossed on the fire?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Running, Dog, Intelligent

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2009.

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• 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

  Motherhood, Men, Smell

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.3, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules.

  Heath Ledger

  Dark, Way To Live, World

  "Fictional character: The Joker". "The Dark Knight", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing Money, People, Triumph

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.163, John Wiley & Sons

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• Is it not easy to conceive the World in your Mind? To think the Heavens fair? The Sun Glorious? The Earth fruitful? The Air Pleasant? The Sea Profitable? And the Giver bountiful? Yet these are the things which it is difficult to retain. For could we always be sensible of their use and value, we should be always delighted with their wealth and glory.

  Thomas Traherne

  Thinking, Air, Sea

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Brother, Mean, Law

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• It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world - we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Suicide, Cat, Dark

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

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