I can't drive, so I don't need a flash car, and I like living at home, so I don't need a mansion. I'm sensible with money. It's not why I act.
I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
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.
It's from love and knowledge of nature that any sensible understanding must come. Technology is essentially antagonistic to nature - that in fact is why it's created, to do something to or with nature that wasn't there before, that wasn't natural.
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life.
Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?
A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
Michael Bloomberg is a sensible guy. He's just privileged. He's a goddamn billionaire, and he or his family members have never had to deal with anything as remotely degrading as stop and frisk. So he has no point of reference.
A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.
I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.
Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.
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.
A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.