Reasonable Quotes

815 quotes by 631 authors

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical,… — Stella Adler
The great purpose is to set aside a reasonable part of the vanishing wilderness, to make certain that generations of Americans yet unborn will know… — Frank Church
Is it reasonable to suppose that we can apply a broad-spectrum insecticide to kill the burrowing larval stages of a crop-destroying insect ... without also… — Rachel Carson
Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But… — Norman Vincent Peale
The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely. — Charles Fort
There is certainly no single remedy for this condition and I am offering no panacea. But it seems reasonable to believe â€” and I do… — Rachel Carson
We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time and energy to… — Theodore Roosevelt
Children have no reasonable assumption of privacy while they are minors in their parent's home. — Laura Schlessinger
It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
It's irrelevant to me if other people know who I am. I'm just, I'm really happy. It calms me down, too. If you're on top… — Nick Offerman
The majority of unskilled investors stubbornly hold onto their losses when the losses are small and reasonable. They could get out cheaply, but being emotionally… — William O'Neil
That someone would want another human being to suffer, or would even tolerate the idea, for committing no crime at all but being reasonable, is… — Richard Carrier
I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable… — Thomas A. Edison
The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is… — C.S. Lewis
Rememberest the gods, and that they wish not to be flattered, but wish all reasonable beings to be made like themselves; and... rememberest that what… — Marcus Aurelius
By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about… — Charles Caleb Colton
You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write; they do it… — Harper Lee
Women who work for escort agencies that assign them out to prostitution dates at sushi restaurants know how to eat with chopsticks, and beyond that… — Julie Klausner

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