Reasonable Quotes

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History is rarely made by reasonable men. — Terry Goodkind
One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadnâ€™t, and… — Nicole Krauss
The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires… — Soren Kierkegaard
Dmitri was at a total loss. It was a common reaction for people when I agreed to do something reasonable. — Richelle Mead
Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part. — Thomas Paine
Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats… — Harper Lee
Every promise of Scripture is a writing of God, which may be pleaded before Him with this reasonable request, 'Do as Thou hast said.' The… — Charles Spurgeon
We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way. — Aldous Huxley
Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no… — Emile M. Cioran
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire
In university courses we do exercises. Term papers, quizzes, final examinations are not meant for publication. We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe… — John Gardner
I don't remember you being this reasonable before, " Lissa said. "It's because everyone has different definitions of 'reasonable. ' Mine's just misunderstood, that's all.… — Richelle Mead
Or. I hate that word. Itâ€™s two letters long and stuffed to the gills with reasonable doubt. — Jodi Picoult
Nobody likes me!" "I wish I could like you, Charlie Brown, but I can't... If I were to like you, it would be admitting that… — Charles M. Schulz
What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me--that is what… — Albert Camus
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. — Mary Balogh
But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else. — Haruki Murakami
These prinÂciples laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never… — Leo Tolstoy
Margaret had always dreaded lest her courage should fail her in any emergency, and she should be proved to be, what she dreaded lest she… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Who is Hunter Becker?" "Becker the Gory? Lighthouse Keepers? Boston?" "I would've preferred Becker the Easiley Surrendering or Becker the Quite Reasonable, but beyond that… — Ilona Andrews

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