The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
There is as much wisdom in soliciting good counsel as in giving it. The most sensible people are not reluctant to consider the feelings of other people; and to know how to submit to the wise guidance of others is a kind of wisdom in itself.
The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.
Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?
Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?
The sensible part of me wanted to dissect my emotions, overthinking and overcomplicating my reaction to Jev.
Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible. . . he's just a reasonable, sensible human being.
Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.
Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been pleased to place us in here; wherein, to check our over-confidence and presumption, we might, by every day's experience, be made sensible of our short-sightedness, and liableness to error.
If we were sensible we would seek death--the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
Benign environmentalists are opposed to pollution, as all sensible people are; malign environmentalists are opposed to energy and most of what it enables.
Your first great duties, you are sensible, are those you owe to Heaven, to your Creator and Redeemer. Let these be ever present to your minds, and exemplified in your lives and conduct.
We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.
A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.
One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
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'?
I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.
Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done so. He'd decided that it was because, imprisoned in the priceless, inquiring amber of Leonard's massive mind, underneath that bright investigative genius was a kind of willful innocence that might in lesser men be called stupidity. It was the seat and soul of that force which, down the millennia, had caused mankind to stick its fingers in the electric light socket of the Universe and play with the switch to see what happened - and then be very surprised when it did.
Few criminals die sensible of their crimes.