Reasonably Quotes
233 quotes by 213 authors
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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance.…
— James A. Baldwin
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Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose upon citizens, and…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move…
— Jo Brand
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A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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I would love to be on 'Top Gear' as a star in a reasonably priced car.
— Sandra Bullock
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The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.
— Alexis Carrel
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In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think, because the book…
— Graydon Carter
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss,…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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I'm left-handed, and it's not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the…
— Kurt Cobain
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Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably…
— Max Beerbohm
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The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect…
— David Hume
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The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct…
— John von Neumann
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There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of…
— Seneca the Younger
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Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.
— Charles Kettering
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Scottish golf is a more public game. It is more reasonably priced and they play faster. It isn't cart golf. The only reason resorts force…
— Daniel J. King
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I was taught to play the game from a total team concept-to be able to do everything reasonably well and some things extraordinarily well. If…
— Rick Barry
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Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God, can reasonably be…
— William Buckland
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I can't imagine any reasonably responsible person arguing against the abortion of mongols ... If we could tell what foetuses are going to be affected…
— Cecil Jacobson
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