Reasonable Quotes

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.

Sell practical, tested merchandise at a reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings - and they will always come back.

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

if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.

The policy of letting the free market determine the height of wage rates is the only reasonable and successful full-employment policy.

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

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

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

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.

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

Women would rather be right than reasonable.

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.

Here seems now no reasonable justification for continuing any civil plutonium program.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.

There's no use in comparing one's feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself.

Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.

Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.

The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

I think any reasonable person knows which reporters to eliminate.

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.

I set another goal, a reasonable, manageable goal that I could realistically achieve if I worked hard enough. I approached everything step by step.

When you're in the middle of a storm, leaving your country just because you have to leave without any reasonable reason, it means you're quitting your country and this is treason.

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

We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people's traditions.

History is rarely made by reasonable men.

I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world.

It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass.

Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.

GOD will not permit that a soul which desires to be devoted entirely to Him should take other pleasures than with Him: that is more than reasonable.

Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.

If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.

The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.

A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog.

I believe in making all movies at their most reasonable. That I get a lot of money as an actor is because nobody else will get it if I don't.

It's also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that it is computationally capable.

I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president.

Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

I founded Friends of the Earth to make the Sierra Club look reasonable. Then I founded the Earth Island Institute to make Friends of the Earth seem reasonable.

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.