Top 199 Sensible Quotes

I’m scared of everything. I think it’s only sensible to be that way.
Christopher Walken
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
It is obviously sensible the crossing of a border ought not to protect a criminal from the consequences of his crime.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.
Ron Chernow
Whether something is sensible or not is subjective. What is sensible to me might not be for others.
Radhika Apte
The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Comedy is really my passion. I started out way before t

Comedy is really my passion. I started out way before television doing sketch comedy with other women. Very much along the lines of, at the time it was ‘Sensible Footwear’, but now it’s ‘Smack The Pony’, ‘French And Saunders’, that kind of thing. That’s how I started out.
Amanda Tapping
I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
Emily Bronte
Will I be sensible and pay off the mortgage? Not a chance.
Judd Trump
A guru is like a live road map. If you want to walk uncharted terrain, I think it is sensible to walk with a road map.
Jaggi Vasudev
My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.
Mireille Enos
The idea of giving your talent for free in order to save lives seemed like the most sensible thing anyone’s ever suggested.
Lenny Henry
I enjoy doing comic roles that blend with the story. I am looking for cinema that is sensible and is entertaining and engaging, be it is comic or serious.
Biju Menon
I respect that my husband makes decisions he feels are sensible and intelligent… It’s not my place to give him political advice.
Louise Linton
I don’t think I have reached that stage where I can evaluate my career. I still have a long way to go. All I wish for now is to make sensible moves and to choose wisely. It doesn’t matter if there are gaps between films, as long as the ones I do give me the satisfaction of having done something good.
Nivin Pauly
Anybody who has something sensible or worthwhile to say should be able to say it calmly and soberly, relying on the words themselves to convey his meaning, without resorting to yelling.
Richard Dawkins
I am not aware of any sensible theory of how classical gravity could interact with quantum matter, and I can’t imagine how such a theory might work.
Alan Guth
I’m an off-road racecar driver. And I think every woman in my life has told me that’s not a sensible hobby. But when I was growing, even more than I wanted to be funny, I wanted to be a racecar driver. That’s all I thought about. I worked for a race team when I was 15 and I traveled with them.
Dax Shepard
I’m a really good hacker, but I’m not a sensible person.
Richard D. James
It is my mission to put sensible and evidence-based information above politics and exaggeration.
Carl Hart
Nonsensical decisions are made all the time in football and then really sensible decisions are made all the time. It really is the maddest business but everyone knows that. We all love it.
Sean Dyche
At 26, I was single, living in Manhattan, and working as a journalist at ‘Vanity Fair.’ I was Carrie Bradshaw… in sensible shoes.
Nell Scovell
It has always been sensible for good citizens to own and carry firearms for lawful protection against violent criminals who prey on decent people.
Wayne LaPierre
I have passed, I hope, many tests over the course of the last 20-odd years in relation to the peace process and intend to continue to work forward in a very sensible and reasoned way with political colleagues in the Executive.
Martin McGuinness
I’m not desperate to stay in Formula One. It needs to be sensible and it needs to be the right deal.
Nico Hulkenberg
If your aim is to give practical, sensible advice about losing weight – and not how to drop a stone in five days – you should encourage reasonable expectations, instead of dangerous ones, along with exercise and healthy eating.
Jo Swinson
Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it.
Frank Gaffney
The only thing that I have to be assured of is that the character must be negative for a sensible reason. She should not be behind everyone’s life just for fun, which is the case in many serials. Moreover, it will also test my potential as an actor, so playing a negative character would be an interesting challenge for me.
Sriti Jha
I had to stop being a student idiot and become more sensible and organised and that definitely improved my batting. I also reacted far more quickly to situations in Test cricket because I’d been a county captain. It made a huge difference.
Andrew Strauss
I wanted to lose weight, but rather than going about it the sensible way, I pretty much stopped eating.
Tom Fletcher
I got into university to study graphic design, and I got into drama school as well, so I had the choice whether I wanted to go down the sensible route or if I wanted to become an actor.
Chris Geere
My father was a television director and producer, working on documentaries and current affairs programmes including ‘Panorama,’ and I didn’t think he’d find acting a sensible option. But as soon as I’d finished my A-levels, I got on a train to Edinburgh, and that was it.
Sarah Alexander
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
Paul Cezanne
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
Senator Badger did not call. During the whole of the last session of Congress, he did not call on me. He is a bitter partisan and is no doubt sensible that during the presidential canvass of 1844, he did me gross injustice.
James K. Polk
I am proud to join the many state legislators, governors, businessmen and hard-working Americans who have worked to build support and momentum for the idea of the Health Care Compact, and I am proud to introduce the common-sense bill for this sensible solution.
James Lankford
Corruption and illicit financial flows are different. But they really must be twinned. This is because, for practical purposes, it is an eminently more sensible approach to treat most of the sources of illicit financial flows as corrupt activity, within a broader use of the term.
Yemi Osinbajo
I follow politics avidly. I like sensible people of all

I follow politics avidly. I like sensible people of all political persuasions. My ideal political party would be a pick and mix.
Alexander Armstrong
Getting a tattoo is arguably one of the most insane decisions a sensible human can make.
Jenna Wortham
You can’t argue that you have to have art, and prove it to anybody. Why should I give $1,000 to art when there are people starving? Of course, that’s true. But just because you can’t, theoretically, defend the arts, or make a sensible argument for their preservation, doesn’t mean they’re not important.
Dakin Matthews
Life’s full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn’t matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
Bear Grylls
We have seen too many arbitrary Strasbourg diktats based on the whims of European judges – from prisoner voting to blocking deportation of Abu Qatada – rather than a sober reading of the sensible list of core freedoms in the European Convention itself.
Dominic Raab
The grip of the NRA is so suffocating in Washington that politicians are too afraid of the gun lobby to pass even the most sensible reforms, like universal background checks.
John Fetterman
We have to honor our commitments to today’s beneficiaries, but we can’t solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.
Nan Hayworth
As you get older you’re told to be sensible, but it’s important for writing if you’re a comic that you’re able to still access that childlike thing.
Tim Vine
Building walls is entirely sensible. We don’t need to do it. We have got the English Channel.
Nigel Farage
I go for a sensible dinner with the wife when I can.
Declan Donnelly
I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it’s not part of a sensible way of living. It’s a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously.
Jane Campion
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
Georges Clemenceau
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you’d do something else.
Lawrence Durrell
When you turn 18 in the United States, you should be automatically registered to vote. Ideally, this sensible reform would be a federal law affecting all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and American territories, but our federal government stopped being sensible a very long time ago.
Shaun King
I have a big responsibility as a father. That helps me to be more sensible.
Marko Arnautovic
Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn’t linguistically sensible.
David Crystal
Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.
Kenneth Grahame
I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.
Christina Romer
There’s trade, there’s sensible trade, and there’s dumb trade.
Wilbur Ross
I like to do realistic films as well as sensible humourous subjects, just because I think these films are only capable to attract people to the theatres. Though I agree that serious movies are also good and I like to watch them, it is a fact that majority of the people are hesitant to go to theatres for those films.
Biju Menon