Reasoning Quote by Herman Melville

“To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it.”

— Gregory Maguire

“For the past few weeks I have been laboring under the assumption that if people thought I was dead, they would stop annoying me…

— Gary Reilly

“As uncomfortable as it might be, I refuse to let the comfort of being agreed with suffocate my opinions.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I couldn't think of a reply except No , so I said, 'Sure.”

— Olivia Sudjic

“I didn't say anything at all, because somehow saying nothing seemed more humane than giving him all these reassurances.”

— Jennifer Brown

“Perhaps the very least I wanted was for him to tell me that there was nothing wrong with me, that I was no less…

— André Aciman

“Yes," he said, "in one sense, of course it is--utterly unreasonable.”

— Robert Hugh Benson

“Be reasonable? Fuck you. How’s that for calm and reasonable?”

— Lara Adrian

“I actually huffed. "Do not make me result to underhanded measures." It was the wrong thing to say. He gave me a devastating smile.…

— Katherine Pine

“I haven’t needed anything big enough from you to justify being pleasant, and I doubt I ever will.”

— Alastair Reynolds

“There's very little I wouldn't do for you.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“You are, I think, a little bit contemptuous of the way I prosecute my inquiries," he said with a twinkle.”

— Agatha Christie