Top 199 Sensible Quotes

I believe in sensible, moderate exercise. I try to do something every day, at least 20 minutes per day. I don’t think it’s realistic to ask people to work out 90 minutes a day.
Denise Austin
It’s difficult for me to really temper my personality, but I am trying to be a little more sensible about it. If I really lose my temper, I go to my room and scream and shout, but I try not to lose it on people any more. I’ve never said something mean just like that. I’ve only said things in retaliation.
Sonam Kapoor
I’ve got to be sensible sometimes.
T-Pain
I’m very lucky in my constituency. I have very grown up sensible members who don’t agree with me, but we never have a quarrel. I absolutely respect their views.
Nicholas Soames
I’ve often said that far more sensible than a ‘make poverty history’ campaign would be a ‘make wealth history’ campaign. It is, after all, the wealthy people who do all the damage. The less money you earn, the fewer resources you use up.
Tom Hodgkinson
Confronting a dangerous pandemic requires containing spread wherever it is reasonably possible. Sensible measures such as universal masking, testing and widespread and rapid contact tracing can help. The best way to protect the vulnerable is to try to protect everyone.
Scott Gottlieb
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
George Bancroft
If we’re going to talk about our businesses, we’re going to have to talk about them within the constraints of the disclosure rules, without giving guidance, because we’re not going to give guidance, because we don’t believe that it is a sensible game to play.
Barry Diller
If you go to the U.S., you’ve got a huge market, cheap energy, good skills, and pensions are a sensible cost.
Jim Ratcliffe
Being on the left is supposed to be about unbounded optimism, a belief that what is deemed politically impossible by the ‘sensible grownups’ of politics can be realised, with sufficient imagination and determination.
Owen Jones
Punching your weight is one of boxing’s most sensible rules. It’s a handy one to abide by whether your battles lie in or out of a ring.
Brin-Jonathan Butler
I would urge Rachel Notley to be more like Peter Loughe

I would urge Rachel Notley to be more like Peter Lougheed. Lougheed had a sensible plan for the oil sands, which involved ancillary infrastructure like upgraders and refineries.
Elizabeth May
I really believe that beauty comes from health – sensible eating and exercise.
Dita Von Teese
The true alpinist doesn’t want any infrastructure, he wants to go into the wild. And the odds of getting killed there are relatively high. And most people are sensible enough not to want that.
Reinhold Messner
I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
Dick Cavett
You can’t do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you’re in.
Julian Assange
Al Roker is one of the most sensible people you’ll ever meet. He’s raised two daughters and a son. And I love him, in that as jovial as he is, he’s a straight shooter. He’s a New Yorker, as they say.
Tamron Hall
We’ll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.
Douglas Alexander
I’d been spending way too much money. I wasn’t very sensible. I got to the point where I couldn’t afford to even pay the mortgage.
Chesney Hawkes
Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.
Robert Blair
No sensible author wants anything but praise.
A. A. Milne
I don’t want to be the crazy showbiz family. When I walk into the PTA meetings with my sensible flat shoes and my sensible short wig, I do not look crazy.
Wendy Williams
The Labour party is a lost cause for anybody who is moderate and sensible and believes in that left-of-centre view of life.
Anna Soubry
Let’s not mince words: Everest doesn’t attract a whole lot of well-balanced folks. The self-selection process tends to weed out the cautious and the sensible in favor of those who are single-minded and incredibly driven. Which is a big reason the mountain is so dangerous.
Jon Krakauer
Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Max Born
The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Women are especially sensible in matters relating to tipping: fair but not foolish.
Michael Frome
Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
Charles Caleb Colton
The vast majority of Malaysians are sensible people; they’re moderates, they want peace, they want harmonious race relations at home. They look for national unity.
Najib Razak
What works for me is a little bit of training and sensible eating. You know, the Cameron Diaz’s of the world put a lot of effort into it! But you can’t have it all – I like going out for dinner with my husband; I like meeting my mates at Starbucks!
Louise Nurding
I feel like moderate Republicans, who would support sensible gun violence legislation, are pushed aside by those folks who are absolutely beholden to the NRA.
Tammy Duckworth
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
In markets, there are times when you are looking for what makes sense. At other times, you are looking for what you can do that is sensible versus constraints and uncertainties.
Lloyd Blankfein
Most educated people are not set up to listen or change their minds about politics, however sensible they are in other fields.
Dominic Cummings
What I would like to vote for is a candidate that is socially liberal, a fiscal conservative, broadly libertarian with a small ‘l’ but sensible and pragmatic and with a chance of winning. That’s more or less the empty set.
Tyler Cowen
I want to do sensible films.
Naga Chaitanya
No sensible elected politician would look for spending reductions out of sacking teachers and nurses. We all know how important they are and that our electors want to keep those we have and employ more where possible.
John Redwood
Actually, I think it’s quite sensible not to take yourself too seriously.
Charles Kennedy
Raftaar is a sensible musician and respects women, music, and his fans!
Nora Fatehi
We are all sensible that the king and Tisaphernes have caused as many of us as they could to be apprehended, and it is plain they design, by the same treacherous means, if they can, to destroy the rest.
Xenophon
People are sensible enough to know who’s dragging my name in dirt for publicity.
Karan Patel
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
H. L. Mencken
But coming back from injury, is like starting to exerci

But coming back from injury, is like starting to exercise for the first time. You can’t get stuck in straight away because you might do yourself a mischief; you have to be sensible.
Chris Hoy
It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
Martin Scorsese
The Chinese are much too sensible to like turkey – come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever encountered turkey anywhere in East Asia, either in a market or on a menu.
John Lanchester
There is certainly no formula of making a successful film, but there are means to make a sensible film.
Dimple Kapadia
I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.
John Lydon
I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.
Gustav Mahler
I’m really sensible with my money. So I would like to own my own house rather than rent.
Scarlett Moffatt
If I’d been bright, I’d have realized that I was horribly uncomfortable, amazingly frustrated, and like any sensible person, I’d have quit. But it never occurred to me that I wouldn’t be successful eventually.
Jack Lemmon
To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.
Emily Post
As a sensible actor, I can easily judge which scene looks vulgar and which will look aesthetic.
Gautam Rode
I spend much of my time in a suit and tie with my top button done up and my sensible shoes neatly polished. When it comes to work, my appearance is about communicating professionalism and confidence.
David Lammy
See it all. See it fairly. Be truthful, be sensible and be careful with language. When nothing depends on man, everything depends on him.
Henry Grunwald
The public’s appetite for what sensible newspapers call ‘personality journalism’ and what I call gossip is insatiable. It will never, ever stop growing because everybody dreams.
Robin Leach
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.
James Belushi
I want to make sensible commercial films.
Paresh Rawal
Vada Chennai’ is a proper mainstream film, told in a sensible way.
Vetrimaaran
I am Brexit tooth and claw, but we need to be pragmatic and sensible and leave with a deal.
James Cleverly
If someone appears on television and makes a comment, and we quote that comment, we are being accurate. But are we actually being sensible if we don’t know if that comment is based on any facts whatsoever? It is something that journalists have to be much more aware of.
Gavin Esler
I’m just part of a tradition of people who aren’t pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I’d just think they’re… sensible.
Jack Dee
I’m obsessed with 666 because the best way to fight your enemy is to know him, and of course my enemy is the devil, as it should be every sensible man’s enemy.
Demis Roussos
I’m in favour of a sensible development of response units and their deployment in any circumstance where there may be a risk to the officers themselves or the neighbourhood they’re in. I’m not in favour of a blanket arming of the police.
David Blunkett