"Doing the big stuff was always going to appeal to the Doctor - the grand gesture, the heroic rescue, the overthrowing of meglomaniacs. Anything else, not so much. The slow, boring, sensible course didn't appeal to her at all. But sometimes she had to grit her teeth and not be heroic. She wanted to go after the villain, but she had to get back to her friends."
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“I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system.
I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”
“I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.”
Apologies
If you respect yourself, don’t accept verbal apologies. Apologies pave the way for similar situations, thus jeopardizing self esteem. What makes relationships stronger is the changed behaviors. Therefore, being alone is more sensible than being bumped into same ideas and attitudes.
“I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.
I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Beatles and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen - I believe that people are perfectable, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is
Of course, he found my behavior undignified for a man of my intellect. I could tell by the way he turned up his nose at the whole thing. I didn’t let it bother me, but as he went about his more sensible business, I rebuilt the children’s house of cards, which they had toppled; whereupon he went about town telling everyone that the magistrate’s children had always been wild, but now Werther was ruining them completely.
“Rich people have no right to sit down and enjoy themselves, or let their money accumulate for others to waste. It’s not half so sensible to leave legacies when one dies as it is to use the money wisely while alive, and enjoy making one’s fellow creatures happy with it. We’ll have a good time ourselves, and add an extra relish to our own pleasure by giving other people a generous taste"
We must always wait for sensible evidence for our beliefs; and where such evidence is inaccessible we must frame no hypotheses whatever. Of course this is a safe enough position in abstracto. If a thinker had no stake in the unknown, no vital needs, to live or languish according to what the unseen world contained, a philosophic neutrality and refusal to believe either one way or the other would be his wisest cue. But, unfortunately, neutrality is not only inwardly difficult, it is also outwardly unrealizable, where our relations to an alternative are practical and vital. This is because, as the psychologists tell us, belief and doubt are living attitudes, and involve conduct on our part.
"it was love; love, the comfort of the human species; love, the preserver of the universe; the soul of all sensible beings; love! tender love!"
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“I have something I need to tell you," he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and look back at him. "I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though."
"That's sensible of you," I say, smiling too. "We should find some paper so you can make a list or a chart or something."
I feel his laughter against my side, his nose sliding along my jaw, his lips pressing my ear.
"Maybe I'm already sure," he says, "and I just don't want to frighten you."
I laugh a little. "Then you should know better."
"Fine," he says. "Then I love you.”
Neşeli insanlar değiliz belki, ama fazlasıyla sağduyulu ve dürüstüz.
Perhaps we are not cheerful people, but we are extremely sensible and honest.
"'Biliyor musun, sevgili Sensible, elinde bir kalem varsa olağanüstü şeyler yaşayabiliyorsun.'"
"'Dikkat et. Benim hayal gücümün en büyük başarısı, sevgili Sensible, karşısına dikilen tüm engelleri yıkmaktan ibarettir, zihnimin bu kaprisli parçası disiplin düşmanıdır, düzensizliği ve suçun renklerini taşıyan her şeyi çıldırasıya sever.'"