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If one is sensible, if one is reasonable, if one never allows oneself a base thought or an envious emotion, naturally one says: Let's make a foursome! — Doris Lessing

I begin to think a body may get any reasonable thing in this world if they will only try hard enough for it! — E.D.E.N. Southworth

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice ... it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous ... — J. Michael Straczynski

I dare say being a receptionist at the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square gets you a reasonable salary and all the nylon stockings you can eat, — Hugh Laurie

Still, waking up this early was just wrong. "Why can't people be reasonable and only die after eleven A.M.?" I whined. — Diana Rowland

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men. — Edwin Louis Cole

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day. — Evelyn Underhill

Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt. — Barbara Demick

I lay still for a while, picking up the scattered garments of my mind and trying to assemble some kind of reasonable outfit from them. — Richard K. Morgan

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable. — Martin Luther

When a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view. — Alice Thomas Ellis

Hopelessness is reasonable. But nothing of worth in my life came of reason. Not my love, not my art, not my heaven. So I am hopeful — Clive Barker

Nowadays it would be reasonable to have an annual world championship. — Boris Spassky

We live in a world where virtually everybody expects there's going to be some reasonable therapy for virtually any situation. — Dean Kamen

Oblivion seemed the only reasonable option. — Ian McEwan

I didn't like having reasonable arguments thrown at me. — Richelle Mead

Americans get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. — Eric Alterman

Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent. — Robert Breault

Why are other people's prejudices so strange, while our own are so thought-out and reasonable? — Donna Leon

We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil. — Abdallah Salem El-Badri

If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun. — Dalai Lama XIV

There are times when explanations, no matter how reasonable, just don't seem to help. — Fred Rogers

It's widely assumed that you can't compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience. — John Perry Barlow

To be reasonable one should never complain but when one hopes redress. — Mary Wortley Montagu

Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on policy. — Mark McKinnon

Reason will always be logical,
Logic not always reasonable,
For truth from reason derivable,
And logic falsehood multipliable. — Munindra Misra

Humor is an absurd answer to a reasonable question. — Mark Bell

And I had by now become used to the idea of witchcraft, it seemed a reasonable thing, so many things are about, at night, in Africa. — Karen Blixen

There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse. — Socrates

Nature is neither reasonable nor just. Nature is exact. — Beah Richards

All right, we need a way to get into the palace. Any ideas?"

"Ask nicely? Charge in? Fly? Wait, do you mean reasonable ones? — Noelle Crawford

What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands? — George Eliot

Why lie, Robert? Why lie? You know that lying is the alcoholics kryptonite, you can't afford it, the reasonable voice in his head screamed. — Gudjon Bergmann

We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt. — Alan Dershowitz

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it. — Josh Billings

Ah, a breath of fresh air: reasonable faith!!!"

~R. Alan Woods [2013] — R. Alan Woods

Our ordinary and reasonable service to God may actually compete against our total surrender to Him. — Oswald Chambers

Despite the Saint-Nectaire, this analysis would be absolutely reasonable if it did not sin grievously by omission — Georges Perec

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. — Marcus Aurelius

The only reasonable outcome of a nation's sins is to learn not to repeat them. — James Cook

We've had a tone-deaf White House that does not want to be reasonable. President Obama won't meet with the Republicans. It's all his way. — Chris Smith

Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music. — Teddy Wilson

GOD will not permit that a soul which desires to be devoted entirely to Him should take other pleasures than with Him: that is more than reasonable. — Brother Lawrence

Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable. — Blaise Pascal

I'll do anything reasonable, but I won't be intimidated and I won't grovel. — Lynne Graham

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. — Samuel Butler

I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol. — Joanna Lumley

History is rarely made by reasonable men. — Terry Goodkind

Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The wrong way always seems the more reasonable. — George A. Moore

I didn't get where I am by having reasonable goals — Ann Leckie

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. — Joseph Addison

Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part. — Thomas Paine

What are you wearing?" She'd never done this before, but a mutual exchange of information seemed reasonable. "Santa suit. — Samanthe Beck

I have the right to demand obedience because my orders are reasonable ones. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Mick: What do you remember from when you were four?
Josef: Well it was 1603 Mick, it's reasonable to be a little hazy. — Rachel Hawthorne

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. — Barbara Tuchman

Dreams provide a kind of wisdom of the heart, an echoing voice of a profound human sensitivity too often lost to us in the reasonable life of days. — Sheldon B. Kopp

It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space. — Winston Churchill

It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success. — Martin Seligman

The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. — John Tukey

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

I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values. — Roger Ebert

Who said love was reasonable? — Johanna Lindsey

I set another goal ... a reasonable, manageable goal that I could realistically achieve if I worked hard enough. I approached everything step by step. — Michael Jordan

I'd always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice. — Robin McKinley

It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning. — Henry David Thoreau

To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported. — Epictetus

While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party. — Eliot Spitzer

What's the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots? — Cassandra Clare

The harshness and choice of words can cut deeply. Republicans need to show compassion and to be reasonable when talking to any ethnic group. — Henry Bonilla

It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles. — Blaise Pascal

Why tell me to be reasonable when you should be telling me to be courageous? [Arlana to Dave in The Battle for Halcyon] — Peter Kazmaier

A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog. — Edward Noyes Westcott

Reasonable people can differ on whether or not we should have gone into Iraq. — Mike Pence

Dmitri was at a total loss. It was a common reaction for people when I agreed to do something reasonable. — Richelle Mead

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing. — Norman Cousins

... insanity is never reasonable. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Not that I do not wish to be under the impression of your love just that I am too logical even in love. — Pushpa Rana

I consider myself a reasonable man. As such, I tend to expect others to behave with a modicum of reason and common sense. Especially those with power. — Peter Horton

Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. — Robert Graves

Grace is the atmosphere created by love that makes faith the only reasonable response — Bill Johnson

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay. — Eleanor Roosevelt

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do — Benjamin Franklin

I once heard it said that everyone needs love-and if they're denied, they'll find it, or a reasonable substitute somewhere. — Richard Paul Evans

The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

My girlfriend is as reasonable as Lady Justice, and just as blindfolded. She's tied up in the trunk this very moment. — Jarod Kintz

If you're going to insist on being reasonable, I'm going to stop hanging with you. — J.R. Ward

You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains. — Hunter S. Thompson

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise. — Andrew Cuomo

There are reasonable limitations. I believe I can't fly. I believe I can't touch the sky. — Zack Parsons

What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Reason is not always reasonable — Bangambiki Habyarimana

That was, in fact, my life. A whole series of reasonable lies. — Stacey Kade

The golf course is always in good shape. Paul Latshaw does a reasonable job. — Jack Nicklaus

A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth. — Roy Keane

The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating. — John Lewis

Pooh!" she exclaimed. "Fancy asking a woman to be reasonable! — E. Phillips Oppenheim