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Quotes About Reasonable

Here's the main point: if you have an activity where the results are nearly all skill, you don't need a large sample to draw reasonable conclusions.
~ Michael J. Mauboussin
In his essay "Equality" (1943), Lewis advises: "Watch the faces, mark well the accents, of the debunkers." In other words, those who debunk tend not to be straightforwardly critical, but usually have "an agenda" (as we now say); the opposition that debunkers have to things is not honest and reasonable but tainted by an inferiority complex, or small-mindedness, or some other intellectual defect.
~ Unknown
Deciding she couldn't really be bothered searching for the illusive closures, she was sitting quietly in bed when he returned. He halted for a second. "I'm surprised to find that you obeyed an order." "I'm not unreasonable...so long as the order is reasonable.
~ Nalini Singh
Even if there were doubt as to when life begins, the benefit of the doubt should be given to protecting life—reasonable people don't shoot unless they're absolutely sure they won't kill an innocent human being.
~ Norman L. Geisler
Women would rather be right than reasonable.
~ Ogden Nash