Best 84 quotes in «reasonable quotes» category

The problem with a lot of people is that what they think is a virtue is actually a vice in disguise. It's much easier to convince yourself that you're reasonable and civilised, than soft and weak, isn't it?

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

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

...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and pain. How could she be with him for long? A secret part of Arbell had been searching for some time for a way to leave her lover—although she was unaware of this, it is only fair to record. And so as Cale waited for her to save him while he worked out a way of saving her, she had already chosen the bitter but reasonable path of the good, of the many over the one...

The wrong approaches to faith and to skepticism are equally detrimental to the path. For the former declares its answers too soon and is later found false; the latter rejects sound answers altogether and hashes itself useless.

Why tell me to be reasonable when you should be telling me to be courageous?" [Arlana to Dave in The Battle for Halcyon]

Today it is cheaper to start a business than tomorrow.

We are given a great power, we should capable enough to handle it and use it fair and square.

When society does something wrong and extremely immoral, ironically it is not called ‘madness’. For example, ‘sati burning’ and ‘forced conversion into another religion’ etc. Sometimes, an ‘unreasonable’ society tries to present itself as ‘reasonable’ by unfairly and selfishly defining ‘madness’ according to its own wish and for its own interest!

When you tell someone to dress for unhindered movement, going naked seems like the best option to me.

A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.

You can deal with an emotion based on reason, but who can control an unreasonable emotion?

Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing.

An uprising of the reasonable is our only chance.

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

History is rarely made by reasonable men.

"But to be hanged - is that not unendurable?" Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Grace is the atmosphere created by love that makes faith the only reasonable response

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

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 make no apologies for being reasonable.

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

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

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

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.

I think any reasonable person knows which reporters to eliminate.

It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.

It is never too late to become reasonable and wise.

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

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

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

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

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 wrong way always seems the more reasonable.