My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.
I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.
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.
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
I cannot understand how sensible people still defend Facebook, YouTube and Twitter
If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.
No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.
If a man achieves worldly success and does not blend into his life a program of self-improvement to bring about a sensible balance, he no doubt will end up as a failure.
We don't do sensible things. This is America.
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.
If I am right in supposing it to be comparatively easy to make capital-goods so abundant that the marginal efficiency of capital is zero, this may be the most sensible way of gradually getting rid of many of the objectionable features of capitalism.
What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear," and "my love" come from the heart; but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?
It's part of the Constitution. People have the right to bear arms. Then the restrictions of it have to be reasonable and sensible. You can't just remove that right. You've got to regulate, consistent with the Second Amendment.
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.
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.
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.
As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.
