Sentence examples for sensible to live from inspiring English sources

It seemed eminently more sensible to live in a part of a hotel which you knew would not be struck by shell fire, because you knew where the shells lit, than to go to some other hotel further from the lines, the angles of which you had no data to figure and where you would maybe have a shell drop through the roof.

Bernard Jenkin, chair of the Commons public administration and constitutional affairs committee, said: "A charity involved in such responsible work and employing so many people, was it really sensible to live such a hand-to-mouth existence?" But Yentob replied: "I don't believe that this charity was not run properly".

As he says, "The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules".

Wars are "violent games" played by men; women, on the other hand, "know there is a healthy, sensible, loving way to live".

Clearly the sensible thing is to live together happily.' In the middle of a UK book tour, she confides that she and her architect fiance will have to finalise their wedding plans on the train up to Edinburgh.

"That makes it sensible to be asking questions about, for example, the effects of social networking sites on their offline lives".

Such an explanation seems sensible to those living in a technologically advanced and ruthlessly competitive culture like our own, where anybody who fails to get at least a college degree, if not an M.D./Ph.D./J.D., risks spending a life busing tables or telemarketing.

The sensible questions are how to live that time to the fullest and how to stave off a premature ending.

To Be Free sees Amstell delving once again into his bottomless pit of neuroses, trying to break through the constrictions of ego and find some sensible rules by which to live his life.

Although she cared passionately about justice and human dignity, no sensible person would want to live in a society of her design, in which, say, a writer could be tried and punished for making an unflattering erroneous statement about the ancient Greeks (whom she adored).

The Norwegians can usually be relied on to live quiet, sensible lives and not do much harm.