If we were sensible we would seek death--the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.
Sometimes I wish I were less sensible.
The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part.
Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it.
I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot. That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it's a sensible thing to do.
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
It is quite sensible for them to sit back and see where they are.
There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.
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.
I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.
I'm certainly going to support Al Gore because, on the whole, he's the more sensible figure and you vote not for the perfect but for the best. Coupled with that is a special situation.
What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.
It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
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.
Actually, I think it's quite sensible not to take yourself too seriously.
'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.
People live their lives, constantly surrounded by anxiety. if they live long before dying, they end up in senility, worn out by concerns: a terrible fate! The body is treated in a very harsh fashion. Courageous men are seen by everyone under Heaven as worthy, but this doesn't preserve them from death. I am not sure I know whether this is sensible or not.
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
