#sensible

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

#commitments #courageous #debt #deficit #future

The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application. ↗

— David Hume

#arises #benefit #chief #immediate #indirect

I always recommend a sensible diet, including lots of carbohydrates and avoiding too much fat. Dancers don't need different fuel from other people - they just need more of it because they use more energy. ↗

— Deborah Bull

#avoiding #because #carbohydrates #dancers #diet

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

#businesses #fighting #first #know #leave

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

#before #clear #done #god #him

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#always #destroy #hardly #i #illusions

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music. ↗

— Diogenes

#harp #insensible #itself #like #mouths

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. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#feeling #girl #going #got #i

As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on. ↗

— Anna Friel

#back #be happy #could #doing #education

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#cannot #exchange #i #like #live