Reasonable Quotes · Page 14

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species…

— E. O. Wilson

Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future world will, in…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

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

— Edward R. Murrow

Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is…

— Victor Hugo

I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes…

— J. B. Pritzker

While the official productivity data look impressive, alternative measures that are equally reasonable show a much more subdued picture.

— Jan Hatzius

We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much…

— William Allen White

The idea of a series of items, following one another docilely, forms the only possible reasonable approach to life if you have…

— Shirley Jackson

Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It…

— Felix Frankfurter

If a person is fearful, it is a fearful time. If a person is hopeful, it's a hopeful time. If you look…

— Marianne Williamson

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor,…

— D. H. Lawrence

There's none as deaf as those who won't listen. I get letters. If they are moronic, they go in the wastepaper basket,…

— Ken Bates

I still think a reasonable question is, would we be better off with [Muamar] Gadhafi and Bashar al-Assad still in there and…

— Chris Matthews

I think, like many others, I realized that only the massive introduction of American support in one form or another, could possibly…

— Anonymous

All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be…

— Anonymous

I think it's reasonable to say that even thought, in all likelihood, we have slightly different experiences of reality, they are similar…

— Antonio Damasio

Have enough faith in the love of God to believe that a short heartfelt prayer is just as good as a long…

— Emmet Fox

All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“A poem by Rudyard Kipling says derisively of people who despise soldiers and police that they make ‘mock o’ uniforms that guard…

— Richard A. Posner

If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and…

— Diane Arbus

“...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and…

— Paul Hoffman

I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one…

— Thomas A. Edison

We wish to control big business so as to secure among other things good wages for the wage-workers and reasonable prices for…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves.

— Elliot Aronson

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

— Robert Graves

Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and…

— Richard P. Feynman

A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop... it would diversify…

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Met a girl the other nite and told her- Before you can be with someone you have to know the value of…

— Bob Saget

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

— Alexander Hamilton

It is entirely reasonable to want to know how many citizens and non-citizens there are in the United States.

— William Barr

Shopping on eBay is great because it means you can give a high-quality, premium gift at a reasonable price.

— Griff

I was not an especially diligent student but nevertheless obtained a reasonable education in physics.

— Robert Coleman Richardson

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

— Joseph Joubert

I am a conservative thinker, well known as such, outspoken as such but reasonable in my view.

— Roger Scruton

As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace…

— Benjamin Rush

Dreams provide a kind of wisdom of the heart, an echoing voice of a profound human sensitivity too often lost to us…

— Sheldon B. Kopp

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

— Martin Firrell

One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe