Reasonable Quotes

815 Reasonable quotes by 631 unique authors

In 1998 Harry Reid and I had a very close race. It was less than a tenth of a percentage point. We had a reasonable… — John Ensign
I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable. — Joshua Ferris
Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because… — Helen Garner
The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a… — Arthur Erickson
Trust is essential for our social wellbeing. Without trusting the good will of others we retreat into bureaucracy, rules and demands for more law and… — Eva Cox
Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful. But it isn't a given, and even if it were, I don't think the end justifies… — Joseph Murray
A hundred years ago, Auguste Compte, ... a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that we will never… — Michio Kaku
It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far too much power...… — Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources thousands of times greater than we… — Gerard K. O'Neill
I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But… — Edward Abbey
I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would… — George McGovern
The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real… — Arundhati Roy
In order to be in control, you have to have a definite plan for at least a reasonable period of time. So how, may I… — Mikhail Bulgakov
Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent of the particular… — Antonin Scalia
No one ever made a million bucks by being cautious or timid or reasonable. — Eli Broad
Some societies are also more optimistic than others: the U.S. and Australia are my two picks Tell a European you think there’s a housing bubble… — Jeremy Grantham
We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the… — Calvin Coolidge
My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals they're screaming-growling stuff and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he… — Bruce Dickinson
There is no reason to live in fear of crime and violence. There is however reason to take reasonable precautions. And in doing so, you… — Marc MacYoung
Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks. — Edward Felten
When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable. — Ted Kotcheff
You can live a life of either trusting your inner voice or distrusting your inner voice. You can cling to familiar expectations, conventions, and "reasonable"… — Tama J. Kieves
It's often been said, "Violence never solved anything." The simple truth is that when you are slammed up against the wall and the knife is… — Rory Miller
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data… — Stephen Jay Gould
More often than not, in order to find truth, a wise man must suffer the ravings of the insane. There is no undiscovered truth to… — Derek R. Audette

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