when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means…

Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.

— I. A. Richards

In most cases, to be reasonable means not to be obstinate, which in turn points to conformity with reality as it is. The principle…

— Max Horkheimer

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. Act a charity sometimes. When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly such) comes before thee, do…

— Charles Lamb

Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song.

— Gayle Forman

“ Act , implores the Ghost of Future Regret. I shan't give you another chance. ”

— David Mitchell

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

— Steven Erikson

You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just…

— Louise Colet

Whether Earth was deliberately terraformed, in other words, or whether it was seeded with the spores of life from crashed comets or whether, indeed,…

— Graham Hancock

Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

— Voltaire

It's not reasonable for companies that have chief executives and board members who are paid very considerable sums to subsidise low pay through in-work…

— Boris Johnson

I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant,…

— Marcel Proust

“A reasonable looking guy with a sense of humour to go to parties with: surely that´s not too much to ask, is it?”

— Nick Alexander

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows…

— Francois Rabelais

The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost…

— Francis Collins

“They were inconveniently reasonable, these women.”

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman