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Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
Grover Cleveland
Politics
Man
Vote
Woman
Women
Intelligence
Long
Assumed
Positions
Our
Relative
Ours
Out
Responsible
Civilization
Higher
Were
Than
Want
Sensible
Working
Assigned
My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.
Haile Gebrselassie
Time
Me
Father
Think
Running
He
Just
Sensible
Wasting
Wasting Time
The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
First
Fall
Response
Must
Only
Finite
Attempt
Road
Return
Been
Intelligible
Salvation
Infinite
Sensible
Decline
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.
Harold Brodkey
Life
World
Contentment
Entering
Fearlessness
Absolute
Perfect
Never
Part
Head
Velocity
Am
Motion
Sensible
Moments
Even
Aware
Alert
I've been blessed with pretty strong stamina and healthy genes, so I'd call myself sensible. I've had regular mammograms ever since I found a lump in my breast when I was 30. Thankfully, all was well.
Harriet Walter
Myself
Strong
Blessed
Healthy
Pretty
Had
Genes
Since
Well
Call
Been
Mammograms
Thankfully
Sensible
Stamina
Regular
Found
Ever
Lump
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
Harry Seidler
Inspirational
Beautiful
Business
Architecture
Hopefully
Rational
Beautiful Things
Procedure
Sensible
Things
My best hope is that Libya turns into a peaceful, sensible country that has all the things my father and lots of others have been calling for: independence of the courts and press, a protected and democratic constitution, with different parties involved in a healthy and open debate.
Hisham Matar
Hope
Best
Constitution
Debate
Father
Independence
Country
Healthy
Others
Press
Libya
Open
Involved
Parties
Democratic
Protected
Calling
Courts
Been
Lots
Different
Sensible
Turns
Peaceful
Things
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
Me
Horribly
Uncomfortable
Never
Like
Occurred
Been
Amazingly
Person
Quit
Any
Sensible
Sensible Person
Frustrated
Realized
Successful
Bright
Eventually
Working is the best thing for me because I'm borderline ADHD, so I need some kind of focus or I go a bit extreme. I need work to keep me sensible.
Jaime Winstone
Work
Best
Me
Focus
Extreme
Bit
ADHD
Kind
Borderline
Some
Because
Go
Sensible
Working
Keep
Thing
Need
No person can be more deeply sensible than myself of the danger of entangling alliances with any foreign nation. That we should avoid such alliances has become a maxim of our policy consecrated by the most venerated names which adorn our history and sanctioned by the unanimous voice of the American people.
James K. Polk
Myself
History
People
Become
Nation
Our
Danger
Unanimous
More
Voice
Adorn
Alliance
Names
Most
Policy
Foreign
Than
Person
American
Maxim
Any
Sensible
Which
Sanctioned
American People
Should
Avoid
Deeply
Consecrated
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
Me
Injustice
Doubt
Congress
Presidential
Bitter
No Doubt
Badger
He
Partisan
Call
Did
Senator
Sensible
Gross
Whole
Last
Session
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
Jane Austen
Man
Women
Will
Girl
Distinct
Has-Been
Unaffected
Been
Being
Orders
Sensible
Used
Who
Two
I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix Potter at bedtime. Writing seemed to me to be the only sensible way to live and be happy.
Jane Gardam
Me
Be Happy
Happy
Writing
Mother
Before
Live
Way
Seemed
Only
Potter
Could
Write
Soon
Read
Bedtime
Child
Sensible
Even
Started
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
Man
First
Become
Pain
Pleasure
More
First Thing
Than
The First Thing
Sensible
Far
Convinced
Organized
Thing
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
Good
You
Energy
Market
Pensions
Cost
Cheap
Got
Go
Huge
Sensible
Skills
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
Own
Finds
Advantage
Most
Person
Happens
Sensible
Sensible Person
Them
Who
When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.
John Lithgow
You
Back
Most
Go
End
Sitcom
Sensible
Theater
Successful
Thing
I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous.
John Malkovich
People
Kind
Admire
Often
Famous
Sensible
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
Important
Politician
Nurses
Our
Spending
Those
Out
Possible
Would
More
Employ
Know
Look
How
Reductions
Where
Want
Sensible
Elected
Teachers
Keep
I live a super-healthy lifestyle not because it's sensible or that I'm contrite, but because I need to keep my focus on the music I'm making. To do that, I need to be wide awake.
Johnny Marr
Music
Focus
Live
Lifestyle
Because
Making
Sensible
Awake
Keep
Wide
Wide Awake
Need
You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.
Julian Assange
You
Situation
Know
Until
Anything
Sensible
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
Girl
Feeling
Kids
She
Got
Going
Sensible
Little
Little Girl
I don't think the process of writing books is in any way sensible. It's not logical, and it's not reasonable. I do write very fast, and I just do it in a binge. Other people binge-drink; I binge-write.
Kerry Greenwood
People
Writing
Logical
Just Do It
Think
Other
Books
Way
Write
Very
Any
Just
Process
Sensible
Reasonable
Binge
Fast
Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force, because it allows sensible people to realize how stupid and vile their beliefs are.
Larry Kramer
Positive
People
Vile
Stupid
Say
About
Most
Force
Terrible
Because
How
Mitt
Michelle
Sensible
Realize
Us
Who
Beliefs
Actually
Things
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.
Lauren Groff
Good
Me
Care
Down
Extremely
Ways
Married
Various
Takes
Talking
Person
Sensible
Sensible Person
Billion
Who
Deeply
I think most Americans would agree that we need sensible solutions that fix our immigration system and deal humanely with aspiring citizens currently in our country. At the same time, these solutions must increase the security of our borders.
Linda Sanchez
Time
Immigration
Country
Think
Increase
Our
System
Security
Must
Citizens
Would
Solutions
Borders
Most
Deal
Fix
American
Same
Currently
Same Time
Sensible
Aspiring
Agree
Need
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