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It is sensible of me to be aware that I will die one of these days. I will not 'pass away.'
At the age of 21 I was so sensible and became a nun. I am very grateful to myself for that.
Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
I am Brexit tooth and claw, but we need to be pragmatic and sensible and leave with a deal.
Building walls is entirely sensible. We don't need to do it. We have got the English Channel.
Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?
As a sensible actor, I can easily judge which scene looks vulgar and which will look aesthetic.
It is my mission to put sensible and evidence-based information above politics and exaggeration.
Ours is a stable country. Ours is a sensible country. And ours is a fundamentally decent country.
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
One hopes that good, sensible and brave people will continue to go into public life at all levels.
Whether something is sensible or not is subjective. What is sensible to me might not be for others.
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.
I'm not desperate to stay in Formula One. It needs to be sensible and it needs to be the right deal.
The very idea of supernatural magic - including miracles - is incoherent, devoid of sensible meaning.
The people of Chicago have made it very clear that they favor sensible restrictions on gun ownership.
If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.
The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.
It's time for the sensible center to rise up and push for a rational approach to our fiscal challenges.
We have politicized the issue of Russia to a point that we can't have a sensible conversation about it.
There is certainly no formula of making a successful film, but there are means to make a sensible film.
It's a sensible rule that says before you get a mortgage it should be checked whether you can afford it.
We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.
There is no gospel without the offence. This is God's wisdom. It never seems sensible to us in our flesh.
A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.
She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.
I'm pro-trade, but I'm pro-sensible trade, not pro-trade that is to the disadvantage of the American worker.
You can't go do the Green New Deal. It's a set of aspirations that don't really bring us to sensible action.
I don't want to act in a preachy movie just because that is more sensible. I don't watch that kind of cinema.
If you go to the U.S., you've got a huge market, cheap energy, good skills, and pensions are a sensible cost.
Nothing is concealed from the wise and sensible, while the unbelieving and unworthy cannot learn the secrets.
Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible.
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.
We need sensible gun safety measures. The federal government could do something about this; they could show up.
My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.
I believe if we and the Mexicans make a very sensible trade agreement, the Mexican peso will recover quite a lot.
I got a feeling that when I have kids, I'm going to have a little girl, and she's going to be completely sensible.
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.
We are for reasonable and sensible gun ownership so long as it's responsible in the way that criminals can't get it.
GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.
My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.
I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.
It is obviously sensible the crossing of a border ought not to protect a criminal from the consequences of his crime.