Sensible Quotes - Page 23

• One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

  Samuel Butler

  Sunset, Fighting, Men

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• 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.

  Samuel Butler

  Atheist, People, Waiting

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”, London : J. Cape

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• Put in hours and hours of planning, figure everything down to the last detail, then what? Burglar alarms start going off all overthe place for no sensible reason. A gun fires of its own accord and a man is shot. And a broken-down old house no good for anything but chasing kids has to trip over us. Blind accidents. What can you do against blind accidents?

  Ben Maddow

  Kids, Fate, Gun

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• I had a good, sound upbringing with sensible people around me. I was brought up by intelligent parents. My mother always said to me, "You've got to work at your career and you've got to be good at it. Okay, you've had a bit of success but that's not longevity. You've got to really work for a long time."

  Olivia Newton-John

  Mother, Intelligent, Careers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The characters in the four-lettered word FACT consist of seventy-five percent ACT, so it is always sensible to see the character of a person solely by his ACT or deeds than his words.

  Anuj

  Character, Four, Deeds

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• I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person.

  Aphex Twin

  Hackers, Persons

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Jobs, Practice, Refuse

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Aug 06, 2015

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• The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember.

  Mason Cooley

  Class, Shoes, Voice

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• Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding; striving for perfection--in practically anything--is both neurotic and futile.

  Ed Bliss

  Perfection, Excellence, Alternatives

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• Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions, the way to be immortal is to die daily.

  Thomas Browne

  Flesh, Way, Moral

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence”, p.64

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• Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.

  Linda Wells

  Fashion, Food, Shoes

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• To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.

  Horace

  Jobs, Half, Boldness

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 2, l. 40

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• North Korea and China have proposed what sounds like a pretty sensible option that North Korea should end its development of nuclear weapons, the US should stop carrying out hostile military maneuvers on the North Korean border. The US immediately rejected it. Modernization program is a very clear example of how security doesn't matter. There is no gain in security but massive overkill of the adversary's deterrent capacity. The only consequence of it is to elicit the likelihood of a preemptive attack. And a preemptive attack leads to a nuclear winter world.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Winter, World

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 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.

  Rudy Giuliani

  People, Second Amendment, Arms

  "He's Ready! Rudy Giuliani Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. February 6, 2007.

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• I have something I need to tell you," he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and look back at him. "I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though." "That's sensible of you," I say, smiling too. "We should find some paper so you can make a list or a chart or something." I feel his laughter against my side, his nose sliding along my jaw, his lips pressing my ear. "Maybe I'm already sure," he says, "and I just don't want to frighten you." I laugh a little. "Then you should know better." "Fine," he says. "Then I love you.

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Laughter, Love You

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• Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Common Sense, Advantage, Persons

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• As for geoengineering, there have been serious general critiques that I think cannot be ignored, like Clive Hamilton's, along with many positive assessments. It is not a matter for subjective judgment based on guesswork and intuition. Rather, these are matters that have to be considered seriously, relying on the best scientific understanding available, without abandoning sensible precautionary principles.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Assessment, Understanding

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

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• Canada stands out as making a sensible and positive contribution to the world. I'm saying that maybe because of its inclination toward multilateralism. Support for the environmental protection cause. It's relationship between people and nature.

  Christine Lagarde

  People, Support, Environmental

  "Christine Lagarde on slow growth, inequality and fighting cynicism". Interview with Kevin Carmichael, www.macleans.ca. September 12, 2016.

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• Just as the senses require sensible objects to stimulate them, so our powers of observation, recollection, and imagination do not work spontaneously, but are set in motion by the demands set up by current social occupations.

  John Dewey

  Imagination, Demand, Occupation

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.

  Terry Pratchett

  Home, Waiting Rooms, Long

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• The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term.

  Matt Taibbi

  Agency, Government, Long

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• Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind the flattery. There comes a time in every man's life when he has to stop being sensible--a time to stand up and be counted--strike a blow for liberty--smite the wicked.' Ummm...' So quit yawning, the time has come.' She glanced down. 'Maybe I had better get dressed.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Blow, Years

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.89, Penguin

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• 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'?

  Keith Fullerton Whitman

  Thinking, People, Tape

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You are allowed to draw lines even if your feelings are irrational. Part of the marvelous business of being an adult human is that you get to set your own boundaries for whatever reasons you like, without appending a sensible rationale to them.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Feelings, Adults, Lines

  "Backup Mommy". Live chat, www.slate.com. March 8, 2016.

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• I went to university and studied English literature, and I forgot about music. I was gonna be a journalist. But then I decided to try and be a backing singer, and my mum was like, "Go for it." If that didn't work, I was gonna go to law school. I was just being boringly sensible; trying to be a singer felt a bit indulgent.

  Jessie Ware

  School, Law, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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