Best 84 quotes in «reasonable quotes» category

History is rarely made by reasonable men.

I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth.

I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values.

I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity.

I didn't like having reasonable arguments thrown at me.

Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?

If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.

I'm a reasonable guy, but I've just experienced some very unreasonable things.

I think any reasonable person knows which reporters to eliminate.

It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye; that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.

It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.

It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space.

It is never too late to become reasonable and wise.

I make no apologies for being reasonable.

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

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

I was so tired of being told reasonable, practical things whenever something went wrong with my life.

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

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!

Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate.

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

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

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

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

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

The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.)

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

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.

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.

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!!!!

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.

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

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.