Reasonable Quotes

I can find lots of examples where a game won't make you rich, but I can't find a reasonable case where a Linux port doesn't have at least a small, positive return on investment.

Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.

This issue is not economic but political. I hope that all market participants interested in maintaining stable and reasonable world energy prices will finally make the right decision.

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.

You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

I should much rather see a reasonable agreement with Arabs based upon living together than the creation of a Jewish state.

The institution of delegated power implies that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind which may be a reasonable foundation of confidence.

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

For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.

Glenn McGrath had a reasonable career in Australia.

By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name.

I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.

To imagine the world without gods and religion is reasonable enough; to imagine mankind without them is an entirely different matter.

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.

No man can have a reasonable opinion of women until he has long lost interest in hair-restorers.

I make no apologies for being reasonable.

I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.

I do not think any reasonable person can doubt that in India, China and Japan, if the knowledge of birth control existed, the birthrate would fall very rapidly

Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.

Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.

It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.

Met a girl the other nite and told her- Before you can be with someone you have to know the value of yourself. So does $200 seem reasonable?

I assumed, "Well, I must've sounded like Conan O'Brien, or a reasonable facsimile or something." And there I am in the movie [South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut ]. I was very lucky.

A lot of young actresses have a hard time combining a reasonable love life with a career.

My parents just always taught me to be reasonable.

The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the conscience and reflecting powers.

It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.

In light of 50 years of bondage of Eastern Europe, [invading the Soviet Union in 1948 to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons] was probably a reasonable thing to do.

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt. When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

I found draft resistors very conscientious, reasonable, and not fanatics.

Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.

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

More often than not, in order to find truth, a wise man must suffer the ravings of the insane. There is no undiscovered truth to be found in the minds of the reasonable and rational.

Still, waking up this early was just wrong. “Why can’t people be reasonable and only die after eleven A.M.?” I whined.

Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk.

Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.

Once I got a job singing and dancing, a reasonable person might think, "Maybe I should learn how to do this." But no, I never did.

Monogamy is god's way of making death seem like a more reasonable option.

The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species and race in perpetuity.

Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.

If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work the way he was going to anyway.

Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks.

I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and more mature than most of our industry's program planners believe.

While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.

The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.