Zitat des Tages über Sinnvoll / Sensible:
I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
We have sensible fans and sensible policies.
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.
America needs a sensible, sustainable Iran policy that can meet U.S. security and economic interests, command international support and withstand the shifting Middle Eastern sands.
I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.
But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges, and who takes care of me in a billion ways.
I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.
My wife is not insecure at all. She is one of the most sensible persons I know.
'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.
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.
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.
It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.
So many actors are lively-minded, creative people who just tread water in this awful way, waiting for the phone to ring and doing their hair for auditions. It feels like a bit of a dreamer's life - as opposed to a sensible ventriloquist's life.
Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.
The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.
India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.
If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
Sometimes I wish I were less sensible.
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.
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.
My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.
I have ideas. I hear voices. Words accumulate. It's still an overriding impulse. And I'm self-employed, which means I have to be sensible and motivated about paying the bills.
Women are especially sensible in matters relating to tipping: fair but not foolish.
It doesn't matter if it's a wireless or wired network. I think network management can be introduced that is equally sensible.
If you go to the U.S., you've got a huge market, cheap energy, good skills, and pensions are a sensible cost.
Actually, I think it's quite sensible not to take yourself too seriously.
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.
I believe if we and the Mexicans make a very sensible trade agreement, the Mexican peso will recover quite a lot.
When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose he means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child.
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.
How can any government arrange sensible healthcare provision for citizens when the migratory flow is so large, with absolutely no power or control over the quantity coming in every year?
So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
