Reasonable Quotes

815 Reasonable quotes by 631 unique authors

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
for nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves pay to… — Henry Fielding
For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people… — Barney Frank
I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable. — Stephen Fry
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they… — William Lloyd Garrison
There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure… — Malcolm Gladwell
Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men. — Edwin Louis Cole
I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not… — Harry Connick, Jr.
It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing. — Norman Cousins
Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise. — Andrew Cuomo
We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere… — Evan Davis
A woman will allow herself to be clouded by her emotions. Her reasonable thought becomes completely unreasonable over the most ridiculous thing. It's a girl… — Lea DeLaria
Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable. — Alan Dershowitz
Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt. — Alan Dershowitz
I don't think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn't have exclusionary rules, we wouldn't have presumptions of innocence,… — Alan Dershowitz
We have to fulfill what the real meaning of the Second Amendment is: reasonable access to guns for self-protection and for hunting. And there's no… — Alan Dershowitz

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