Reasonable Quotes - page 5

I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
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 what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain. View quote
Edward Abbey
I would remind you...that Socrates was executed not for saying what things were or should be, but for seeking practical indications of where some reasonable approximation of truth might be. He was executed not for his megalomania or grandiose propositions or certitudes, but for stubbornly doubting the absolute truths of others. View quote
John Ralston Saul
Whatever tends to lighten one's burden must be examined carefully. For although such alleviation is sometimes justified and reasonable, it is most often a deceitful prescription of the evil inclination, and must, therefore, be subjected to much analysis and investigation. View quote
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
I think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely. View quote
Aubrey de Grey
There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound reasonable, in large part, because so many of them can be leveled against the federal government of the United States. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Most people are reasonable. That's why they only do reasonably well. View quote
Paul Arden
I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price. View quote
Walter Jon Williams
Well, I hate to admit it, but it is possible that there is (one) such a thing as telepathy and (two) that the CETI project's idea that we might communicate with extraterrestrial beings via telepathy is possibly a reasonable idea--if telepathy exists and if ETIs exist. Otherwise we are trying to communicate with someone who doesn't exist with a system which doesn't work. View quote
Philip K. Dick
In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure. View quote
Hans Eysenck
We must not be satisfied to present Christianity as the most reliable position to hold among the competing options available. Rather, the Christian faith is the only reasonable outlook available to men. (Greg L. Bahnsen)
Christianity is reasonable in virtue of the impossibility of the contrary. View quote
Greg L. Bahnsen
Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness. View quote
Diane Setterfield
If you're going to insist on being reasonable, I'm going to stop hanging with you. View quote
J.R. Ward
I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable. View quote
Joshua Ferris
Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves. View quote
Elliot Aronson
If you think about the unthinkable long enough it becomes quite reasonable. View quote
Josephine Tey
No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it. View quote
Atul Gawande
Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs. View quote
Adam Gopnik
Who said love was reasonable? View quote
Johanna Lindsey
Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise. (Andrew Cuomo)
The world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you can buy at a reasonable price. View quote
Peter Mayhew
It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office. View quote
Alan Ladd
All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people. View quote
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