Reasonable Quotes

Latin American countries are part of the West and that it is reasonable to expect a certain degree of openness in their societies that we do not demand of, say, China or Vietnam.

Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on policy.

I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.

It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war.

It was strange how the heart clung to hope even when there was no reasonable basis for it, Morgan found. And how life went on.

When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.

to be reasonable one should never complain but when one hopes redress.

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

Heaven is where the reasonable people are!

Patience? Certainly no! We have no time for patience! While tomorrow is just an assumption, it is not reasonable to be patient!

If you give me enough time, enough leash, I can become pretty reasonable.

Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?

And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain. Therefore, Farewell.

We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federal budget with more transparency and better accountability.

Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable

I think it's not just Republicans who would like to see the Senate run differently. I think there are a reasonable number of Democrats as well.

I think an amnesty program... which is what the president (George W. Bush) has proposed... those are reasonable proposals.

You can find a lot of reasonable buys at Wal-Mart. But one key to making it on a budget is by donating your time and labor to the project. Do-it-yourself projects will always help you save.

The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of years, has not become any the more natural or reasonable as a result.

When even those who should be happy by any reasonable measure are also not happy, there's got to be a serious systemic problem in humanity's culture.

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

As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of the people around me, is less reasonable and less attractive.

Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

If the authors and custodians of history turn out to have an attractive image, it is only reasonable to look beyond and ask whether the image they construct is accurate.

By any reasonable criteria, the discipline of economics as a whole, in its present state, is sadly lacking.

Puerto Rico has two divergent paths forward. After a reasonable transition period, it could become a state. Or it can become a sovereign nation.

A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you can buy at a reasonable price.

Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.

A reasonable fine is such as the law will judge to be so . . . but what a reasonable fine is, and who shall be the judge of it, the law has established no rule.

The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold.

It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.

The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day - it's people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a life, so you can have some leisure.

The American president just won the nobel peace prize, by any reasonable measure, all Americans should be proud.

Nobody's reasonable when they're in love. That's the whole point of it.

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

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

Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves.

I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries - I like the hush.

To my crew: Please be reasonable and do it my way. The Captain

I take it that reasonable human conduct is part of the ordinary course of things.

I do not see, Sir, that it is reasonable for a man to be angry at another, whom a woman has preferred to him; but angry he is, no doubt; and he is loath to be angry at himself.

Dreams provide a kind of wisdom of the heart, an echoing voice of a profound human sensitivity too often lost to us in the reasonable life of days.

We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

What the market is doing is going through a correction, which it really needed. It's getting down to where it's reasonable.

Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man in the Cartesian tradition.

What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.

Christianity offers the only viable, reasonable, definitive answer to the questions of Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going? Does life have any meaningful purpose?

Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.