Best 84 quotes in «reasonable quotes» category

oh my god, she said are you going to be reasonable about this?

Once you get it into your head that somebody is controlling events, you can interpret everything in that light and find no reasonable certainty anywhere.

Patience? Certainly no! We have no time for patience! While tomorrow is just an assumption, it is not reasonable to be patient!

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither.

Religion is, by definition, interpretation; and by definition, all interpretations are valid. However, some interpretations are more reasonable than others.

Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate.

PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it.

The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.

The only reasonable outcome of a nation's sins is to learn not to repeat them.

The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.

The dangerous thing about hate is that it seems so reasonable.

The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner.

There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.

The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.

To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

We live in a world where virtually everybody expects there's going to be some reasonable therapy for virtually any situation.

to be reasonable one should never complain but when one hopes redress.

What the market is doing is going through a correction, which it really needed. It's getting down to where it's reasonable.

To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.

You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.

You really can't say things that upset someone in print and expect them to be nice and leave you their money. That's just not reasonable.

A poem by Rudyard Kipling says derisively of people who despise soldiers and police that they make ‘mock o’ uniforms that guard you while you sleep.’ You are likely to have a strong reaction pro or con to this sentiment and how Kipling expressed it, but you will not be able to defend your view with arguments that would convince someone who has the opposite reaction. If you are intellectually sophisticated you mare recognize that your conviction, however strong, cannot be shown to be ‘right,’ but at most reasonable. Yet that recognition will not weaken the strength of your conviction or its influence on your behavior.” 105-06 (quoting Rudyard Kipling, Tommy.)

If you thought with your minds and not your roosters, you would get the point.

You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.

Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it's always because they know why.

Emotion is created by a cause, whether that cause is factual or imaginary does not matter, as longer as the believer holds it as true.

How is it possible, you ask, for love to be greater than the person who does the loving? That’s because love defies the rules of reason. It is the only exception.

If you are going to devote your time to do something you claim you love, take this thought; "is this productive enough and worthy to be done? How useful will it be?" This is purpose.

I often find people wondering why relationships seem to fade in intensity. Some possible light on the subject: When you first meet someone your whole world is about them! As time passes we as humans start to think about what we are GETTING from the relationship as opposed to what we are GIVING. I have read several books on the subject (and started to write one). It is ok (and natural) for a relationship to transition from the "new car" to the "old comfortable shoe". This is the way of humans. It's ok for the roaring flame to become a smoldering ember but every once in awhile we need to throw another chunk of wood on the fire to stoke it up and get that warmth that we desire. Keep your expectations reasonable!!!!

I will no longer argue with the senseless and unreasonable; for they are void of reason and common sense.

I'm not difficult," Violet said. "I'm simple. I like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time. How does that make me difficult? I make sense? I don't talk about my feelings, of course, but then, I don't want to." She shrugged. "So that's reasonable." Sebastian smiled despite himself, a smile that felt bitter even to him. "God, no. Not feelings. Heaven forbid that you have anything so messy." "I have feelings." She spoke stiffly. "I just don't talk about them. What's the point? Talking never changes them.

It is reasonable to reason with God because when you only rely on human reasoning, you will be diverted from your purpose.

It is reasonable to think that if you spend your days indoors under artificial lights, staring at a screen, sitting in computer electromagnetic interference (EMI) fields and exposed to radio waves, that you may eventually develop a strange form of radiation sickness.

Not one of them [formulae] can be shown to have any existence, so that the formula of one of the simplest of organic bodies is confused by the introduction of unexplained symbols for imaginary differences in the mode of combination of its elements... It would be just as reasonable to describe an oak tree as composed of blocks and chips and shavings to which it may be reduced by the hatchet, as by Dr Kolbe's formula to describe acetic acid as containing the products which may be obtained from it by destructive influences. A Kolbe botanist would say that half the chips are united with some of the blocks by the force parenthesis; the other half joined to this group in a different way, described by a buckle; shavings stuck on to these in a third manner, comma; and finally, a compound of shavings and blocks united together by a fourth force, juxtaposition, is joined to the main body by a fifth force, full stop.

Madness is like being primitive once again and going back to the ancient era when there was no language, no clothes to wear, no ready-made food to eat, no cozy shelter to take rest in and no future to plan about. Only the ‘present’ was present with a struggle to survive. But, the only difference between a ‘primitive man’ and a ‘mad man’ is that the former had a ‘reasonable’ mind with some unreasonable traits and the latter has an ‘unreasonable’ mind with many unreasonable and possibly some reasonable traits!

My story can move fast, as I can't, it can have a reasonable and perhaps perfect solution, as mine can't. A solution that is somehow satisfying, as my personal solution never can be.

It is altogether reasonable to conclude that the heavenly bodies, alias worlds, which move or are situate within the circle of our knowledge, as well all others throughout immensity, are each and every one of them possessed or inhabited by some intelligent agents or other, however different their sensations or manners of receiving or communicating their ideas may be from ours, or however different from each other.

...most people are almost blind and they don’t see most things and there is lots of spare capacity in their heads and it is filled with things which aren’t connected and are silly, like, “I’m worried that I might have left the gas cooker on.

Not receiving a request through the expected route is no excuse for not fulfilling it.

People don't demand that a thing be reasonable if their emotions are touched. Lovers aren't reasonable, are they?

Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

She stuck her tongue out at him. A totally rational and reasonable way to fight a demigod.

Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of a lack of evidence or because of intellectual difficulties: at root, he refuses to come because he willingly ignores and rejects the drawing of God's Spirit on his heart. No one in the final analysis fails to become a Christian because of a lack of arguments; he fails to become a Christian because he loves darkness rather than light and wants nothing to do with god.

There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.

There is nothing 'honorable' or 'reasonable' in giving a pass to those who want to discriminate.

Not that I do not wish to be under the impression of your love just that I am too logical even in love.

Play with reason and doubt will close all the gates