The Sensible Thing Quotes

#1. It certainly wasn't the sensible thing to do. [Referring to her move to Italy.]

Jennifer Criswell

#2. Mom says you should never ask for advice you aren't willing to take. I wasn't sure I agreed. Having an unbiased pair of eyes point out a sensible solution was helpful. But the sensible thing and the right thing weren't always the same choice, and no one but you could truly understand the difference.

Jenn Bennett

#3. I think the sensible thing would be to focus on one thing and be the best you can be at it. There is always that risk of spreading yourself too thin if you try to do too much.

Doc Brown

#4. I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.

Jeanette Winterson

#5. Ellen Louise, you've done the sensible thing all your life. Now's the time to follow your heart."
"What if I do that and he still turns me down?"
"What if you don't and you never know?

Jenna Kernan

#6. I certainly wasn't where I should be and it would be the cautious, the sensible thing to do. But, for God's sake, I was an historian and cautious and sensible were things that happened to other people. I

Jodi Taylor

#7. Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.
The Sensible Thing

F Scott Fitzgerald

#8. What do I believe in? Belief means faith, and there's only one damned thing in the world I have any faith in. That's the idea of American democracy, because it seems to me so obvious that that's the only sensible way to run human affairs.

Rex Stout

#9. The thing you had had and loved and taken for granted caught up with you all at once and for no sensible reason suddenly cost more than you could afford.

Ann Brashares

#10. Really, there was only one sensible thing to do. Stay the course. Pray it through, day by day, minute by minute. The Lord had an answer and it would surely come. (p. 203)

Janice Hanna

#11. Comedy is really my passion. I started out way before television doing sketch comedy with other women. Very much along the lines of, at the time it was 'Sensible Footwear', but now it's 'Smack The Pony', 'French And Saunders', that kind of thing. That's how I started out.

Amanda Tapping

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

Bertrand Russell

#13. A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognise that the same thing happens to the soul.

Plato

#14. As you get to thirty, the main thing is to not be sensible.

Mark Steel

#15. Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left - sanity. But there was just enough in him of the blood of these fanatics to make even his protest for common sense a little too fierce to be sensible.

G.K. Chesterton

#16. My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.

China Mieville

#17. Would you think I was joking if I said that you can put a clock back, and that if the clock is wrong it is often a very sensible thing to do?

C.S. Lewis

#18. The main thing that develops positional judgement, that perfects it and makes it many-sided, is detailed analytical work, sensible tournament practice, a self-critical attitude to your games and a rooting out of all the defects in your play.

Alexander Kotov

#19. Ferrin looked at her like she had two heads. "You don't want to marry my son?" "Hell. No." He resumed his seat. "That's the first sensible thing I've heard you say.

Chris Cannon

#20. I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

Jane Gardam

#21. Working is the best thing for me because I'm borderline ADHD, so I need some kind of focus or I go a bit extreme. I need work to keep me sensible.

Jaime Winstone

#22. No matter what we predict for our futures, we're always wrong anyway. The only sensible thing to do is to live this life as it is right now. Leave what happens after you die till after you die.

Brad Warner

#23. People enter states of consciousness where they think they've become enlightened. The best thing to do, if you've gone through one of those phases, is to be sensible, laugh at yourself for how foolish you were.

Frederick Lenz

#24. The only sensible thing to do when you are attacked is, as Napoleon once said, to counter-attack.

Roald Dahl

#25. If there is a credo in practical medicine, it is that the important thing is to be sensible.

Atul Gawande

#26. I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. If you don't hurt anybody else, what you do is your own business.

Johnny Carson

#27. Some things go better than you expected, other things go worse, so I'm ... I think the only sensible thing is just to wait and see and what I'm doing when I'm writing books - I'm not doing science so much anymore.

Freeman Dyson

#28. 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

#29. The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

Elizabeth Taylor

#31. It can no longer be maintained that the properties of any one thing in the universe are independent of the existence or non-existence of everything else. It is, at last, no longer sensible to speak of a universe with only one thing in it.

Lee Smolin

#32. The poet made eating salad with your fingers seem to be the only natural and sensible thing to do.

Sylvia Plath

#33. He took his mouth from hers and stared down at her with eyes so dark they no longer looked blue. "Amanda, do you trust me?"
"Of course not," she said. "I don't know the first thing about you."
Laughter rustled from his chest. "Sensible woman.

Lisa Kleypas

#34. And very probably he had long since come to the sage and sensible conclusion that a man's religion is one thing, and this practical world quite another.

Herman Melville

#35. The Rat, meanwhile, was busy examining the label on one of the beer-bottles. "I perceive this to be Old Burton," he remarked approvingly. "Sensible Mole! The very thing! Now we shall be able to mull some ale. Get the things ready, Mole, while I draw the corks."

Kenneth Grahame

#36. So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.

Thomas Dolby

#37. When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

John Lithgow

#38. It was the same industrial logic- protein is protein- that made feeding rendered cow parts back to cows seem like a sensible thing to do, until scientists figured out that this practice was spreading BSE [mad cow disease].

Michael Pollan

#39. Hannah with the ponytail was one of those women who laugh readily and can talk nonsense for hours without a single sensible thing being said. In principle I try to ignore people like that as much as possible. I simply choose not to think about them. Make up my mind that they don't exist.

Jonas Karlsson

#40. The Abbe Paul looked at Agnes rather as Alain had, with respect. 'How sensible. People are desperate to probe mysteries which for the most part are best left unprobed. It is the modern curse: this demented drive to explain every blessed thing. Not everything can be explained. Nor should be, I think.

Salley Vickers

#41. 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