Top 71 Sensibly Quotes
#1. Things are best that way, Deoga. Forgetting, not remembering. You Farangs become encumbered with your past. The past drives you mad. It keeps you from acting sensibly.
John Speed
#2. I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it because, on balance, it is conducive to the public good.
Randall Kennedy
#3. It would be a better land if only it could be ruled sensibly.
Seth Dickinson
#4. Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.
Kenneth Grahame
#5. While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.
Thomas Jefferson
#6. Kenspeckle: Have you eaten?
Valkyrie: One of your assistants brought me a burger for breakfast
Kenspeckle: I meant, have you eaten sensibly?
Valkyrie: I was very sensible while I was eating the burger. Didn't miss my mouth once
Derek Landy
#7. I believe on the issue of immigration, you have to deal with it sensibly.
Mark Rutte
#8. Intelligence is of paramount importance to live life sensibly, because without intelligence, there is no clarity. And Clarity is intelligence everyone is capable of.
Jaggi Vasudev
#9. When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance with their higher instincts, sensibly and rationally. Also, anger is transient, whereas inspiration sometimes has a life-long effect.
Peace Pilgrim
#10. There is a fine line between paranoia and sensibly caring for our already overburdened bodies.
Shirley Corder
#11. What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.
Dashiell Hammett
#12. These things sensibly affected Theseus, who, thinking it but just not to disregard, but rather partake of, the sufferings of his fellow citizens, offered himself for one without any lot. All else were struck with admiration for the nobleness and with love for the goodness of the act.
Plutarch
#13. Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people.
Thomas Jefferson
#14. You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#15. Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen.
Hugh Mackay
#16. The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
George Bernard Shaw
#18. In this life of ours we remain directed toward the relative utopia of a better world, and sensibly this can be the only model for our action.
Gustav Heinemann
#19. A constellation is not an entity at all, not the kind of thing that Uranus, or anything else, can sensibly be said to 'move into.'
Richard Dawkins
#20. Since Henry Miller's Tropic books, of course, it has become difficult to talk sensibly about girls' c*nts.
Martin Amis
#21. Sense of sin may be often great, and more felt than grace; yet not be more than grace. A man feels the ache of his finger more sensibly than the health of his whole body; yet he knows that the ache of a finger is nothing so much as the health of the whole body.
Thomas Adams
#22. He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#23. The group of stupid people collectively treats or makes an intelligent amongst them look like duffer and a fool living in a big network of enlightened minds even starts behaving sensibly in life.
Anuj
#24. Once upon a time, time was in the hands of the poor. Those who sensibly, reasonably, and firmly held it. Extravagance is only today and tomorrow.
Mona Adnan
#25. Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances.
Timothy Geithner
#26. I was very skinny, but that was just my natural build. I always ate sensibly - being thin was in my genes.
Twiggy
#27. Diplomacy, if conducted sensibly, is a matter of small gains offset by small losses, an attempt to maintain a state of equilibrium in which catastrophes are either mitigated or, with luck, avoided entirely.
William S. Maltby
#28. It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise.
John Calvin
#29. Two big punchers, you've got to keep your chin down, keep your defense up, don't be careless or open, box sensibly, control the centre of the ring and when he lets his punches go, believe me he's gonna know all about it.
Joe Calzaghe
#30. She wanted to stay focused, one thing following sensibly upon another. There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past
Don DeLillo
#31. People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
Anne Tyler
#33. Pray seriously.
Pray sensibly.
Pray scrupulously.
Pray selflessly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#34. Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
Gore Vidal
#35. It's hard to talk sensibly with giants - their massive heads tend to get lost in the clouds
Rick Poynor
#36. The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
George Catlin
#37. There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.
Cullen Hightower
#38. I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#39. A man of limited desire will always have less or perhaps nothing to worry and sensibly no fear of losing anything or everything in life.
Anuj
#40. I still don't believe this craziness for being skinny, but I eat sensibly and I don't stuff down chocolate biscuits
Kate Winslet
#41. Could you people stop trying to come up with novel ways to kill me for just ONE HOUR? Or maybe the rest of the night? I would SO like that. Just the rest of the night. Just sit down. Just stop doing anything. Sit down and wait sensibly. Earth, water, air, fire - you're running out of elements here!
Lois McMaster Bujold
#42. Exchange information, learn to speak sensibly about any subject, learn to express your thoughts, accept new ones, examine them, analyze. Think objectively. Think toward the future.
Anne McCaffrey
#43. I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.
Tony Abbott
#44. The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.
James Monroe
#45. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.
Shirley Jackson
#46. I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be a good thing. It will teach them to win, it will teach them to lose with dignity and magnanimity - all the things you want. It's a pretty good metaphor for life.
Sebastian Coe
#47. Who was there to guide them? The words of self-obsessed politicians, egotistical media personalities, power-crazed newspaper magnates and half-mad clerics? Who could reason sensibly when supplied with all the wrong information for all the wrong reasons?
Robert Rankin
#48. Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
William E. Gladstone
#49. Africa and Europe responded more sensibly but differently. Life has never been sacred in Africa and those who went sight-seeing on targets got little bleeding-heart treatment.
Robert A. Heinlein
#50. SciFi: When there's a serious problem and everyone decides to solve it sensibly.
Elaine Greywalker
#51. Well, I suggest you sleep on it," said Aunt Zelda sensibly. "Things always look better in the morning.
Angie Sage
#52. To suggest that the president should be censured because you don't agree with the legal advice he got seems to me to just
to be out of the ballpark in terms of the way we can sensibly discuss and talk about issues like this.
Jon Schmidt
#53. You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but that's not what's being done.
Meredith Whitney
#54. Pray sensibly.
Pray scrupulously.
Pray selflessly.
Pray seriously.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#55. I ate like a horse when I was younger, and not very sensibly, though no one ever believes that.
Twiggy
#56. Don't talk, Snicket," Theodora said. "Fools talk while wise people listen, so listen up and I'll tell you how we will solve this case sensibly and properly.
Lemony Snicket
#57. The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
George Bernard Shaw
#58. Unquestionably we do stand by our national flag as stoutly as any people in the world; and I myself have felt the heart-throb at sight of it, as sensibly as other men.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#59. The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.
Mark Twain
#60. If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.
William Feather
#62. In my opinion, the entire field of investment management, involving hundreds of billions of dollars, would be more satisfactorily conducted if everyone had a good yardstick for measurement of ability and sensibly applied it.
Warren Buffett
#63. I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!
Abraham Polonsky
#64. Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will.
Minnie Maddern Fiske
#65. Sourav's calm and assured presence sets him apart. His captaincy is of a high order but he bats sensibly and reads situations well. I hope Sourav too becomes a World Cup wining captain.
Lata Mangeshkar
#66. Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
George Bernard Shaw
#67. Think clearly, act sensibly, commit yourself to caring and work hard in order to discover joy. Then give the images back to the world from which they were taken.
Bill Jay
#68. Overachievers don't think reasonably, sensibly, or rationally.
John Eliot
#69. Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because the elite makes most of the progress. You should worry about people who produce really novel inventions, not pedantic hacks.
James D. Watson
#70. When you come to be sensibly touched, the scales will fall from your eyes; and by the penetrating eyes of love you will discern that which your other eyes will never see.
Francois Fenelon
#71. I wanted to get the tears out of the way so I could act sensibly.
Joan Didion
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