Reasonable Quotes · Page 16

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

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

— Elliot Aronson

Clearly, the first task is to gain acceptance of a more reasonable view of the future, one that opens possibilities rather than…

— Herman Kahn

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

It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely…

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

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

It's one of the great gifts of having so little money that you are able to make these kinds of radical conceits…

— Todd Solondz

Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes, and a brutal deep-frozen landscape all prove beyond a reasonable doubt that cold nurtures good and evil…

— Lee Child

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

It is clear that the building of models is not a purely mechanical process but requires skill of a high order -…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

“It is altogether reasonable to conclude that the heavenly bodies, alias worlds, which move or are situate within the circle of our…

— Ethan Allen

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

I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

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

People can make arguments from the Bible if they want to. But I want them to see that they should also give…

— John Rawls

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

— Mark Dever

We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory instant background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere, for anyone.

— Wayne LaPierre