Quotes About Reasonable

It's perfectly reasonable in a coalition between two political parties that you get supporters of those parties you know stressing the things they want to stress.

It does not, surely, require such torrents of blood to satisfy any reasonable man that nothing can be a more impious presumption than for either side to think themselves entitled to count the Almighty as an ally in such a pitiful display of human passion.

It should surprise no one that I'm out arguing for small government, reduced spending and getting our financial house in order, along with reasonable regulations and no more.

Men were far more delicate to deal with than women were, she thought to herself. Their pride made the most reasonable solutions difficult.

The most reasonable of requests felt burdensome if a person had no choice in the matter.

He is aware that he feels a vague respect for the woman. Mendoza, at least, had never done the reasonable thing, never settled for less, but held to her one insane passion even as it had dragged her into the flames. Such a valuable quality in a pawn.

A proof is that which convinces a reasonable man; a rigorous proof is that which convinces an unreasonable man.

The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war.

The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

I believe in making all movies at their most reasonable. That I get a lot of money as an actor is because nobody else will get it if I don't.

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.

Be Practical." That's probably the most stupid piece of advice I've ever received in my life.

...the greatest political problem facing the world today is...how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds.

Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.

Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's; and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?

I'm not a religious person; I would call myself an atheist. I don't have a good story behind it, I'm just reasonable.

It has been shown that public participation can limit powerful interest groups, while competing interests can help find a reasonable balance between development and environmental protection.

President Bush will go down in history as the torture president. He has now defied a majority of Congress to allow the use of interrogation techniques that any reasonable observer would call torture.

I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation

My disadvantages will tire him as they would any reasonable man of small expectations." - Jane Adams

Disappointment doesn't stem from expectations. It stems from unrealistic or unreasonable expectations.