Reasonable Quotes

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.

The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.

I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.

Is it reasonable to assume that someone who has been locked in a closet for 57 days after being kidnapped and brutalized, raped, abused, then they say you're going to rob a bank?

Greece is not a country that can be humiliated. It is a matter of finding an intersection between the reasonable elements of both sides [EU and Greece] which has to be done.

When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision.

To enjoy a reasonable chance for continued better than average results, the investor must follow policies which are (1) inherently sound and promising, and (2) not popular on Wall Street.

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

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

Some achieve a reputation for great successes when in fact all they have done is take chances that reasonable people wouldn't take.

The term bubble should indicate a price that no reasonable future outcome can justify.

Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.

The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.

Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?"

People! Take to the streets and scream 'BE REASONABLE!'

You start out with an hour on the treadmill, then another hour of lifting - hell, in two weeks you're not doing anything anymore. You gotta be reasonable.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.

The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Even defensive portfolios should be changed from time to time, especially if the securities purchased have an apparently excessive advance and can be replaced by issues much more reasonable priced.

Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being.

If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.

People are willing to work free, and they are willing to work for a reasonable wage; but offer them just a small payment and they will walk away.

Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.

It's hard to send your baby off on a plane without you, though that's less reasonable, because sending him off in a car is statistically a bigger risk.

This is the first great problem of modern democracy...how to get a fair living by reasonable hours of work leaving enough leisure for both childhood and manhood.

At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more reasonable than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just.

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.

If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.

He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.

Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.

If we feel that our ministry has come to an end in one place, then it seems reasonable to move on.

To follow the path that others have laid before you is a reasonable course of action; therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men.

The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most reasonable option is to live it fully.

Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.

People who earn reasonable amounts are being turned into the anti-Christ. I think 45 per cent tax is a colossal amount to take off somebody, and it is taking away the incentive to earn.

Americans get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms.

I am the last person whom it would be reasonable to expect to leave the Conservative Party.

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

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

My family thought if I spent time in the military, I'd become more reasonable, a bit calmer. But I've always been extreme in what I do - both as a believer and a nonbeliever.

People are crying out for a Conservative Party that is decent, reasonable, common sense and in it for the long term of this country.

To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.

Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent.