Quotes of: Sensible Keyword

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

Anne Tyler

When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.

Bernard Arnault

I was very skinny, but that was just my natural build. I always ate sensibly - being thin was in my genes.

Twiggy

I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

Pedro Almodovar

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

Jane Austen

If you tell me I'm sensible in addition to normal and wise, I'm going to punch you in the stomach.

Divided in Death

It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward.

Martin Fleischmann

I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society.

Rufus Wainwright

I think Chris Weitz is an amazing director, and his sensibility - I wouldn't even know how to articulate it - it's just, he's a very sensitive, interesting guy.

Elizabeth Reaser

Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.

Sense and Sensibility

…told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…

Sense and Sensibility

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

Sense and Sensibility

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

Pride and Prejudice

Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me.

Villette

Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.

Kenneth Grahame

Frequently parents forget that children are people. I don't try to treat Kristen as an adult, but I do try to treat her as a person, with a child's sensibilities.

Kent McCord

People invade your space and offend your sensibilities because, to be plain, they couldn't care less about you.

Laurie Graham

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

Max Born

I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

Noam Chomsky

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

Lloyd Alexander

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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne