Reasonable Quotes - Page 18

• I believe in the pure Surrealist joy of the man who, forewarned that all others before him have failed, refused to admit defeat, sets off from watever point he chooses, along any other pat save a reasonable one, and arrives wherever he can.

  Andre Breton

  Believe, Men, Joy

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• You can find a lot of reasonable buys at Wal-Mart. But one key to making it on a budget is by donating your time and labor to the project. Do-it-yourself projects will always help you save.

  Nate Berkus

  Keys, Helping, Projects

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• It looks to me like the Republican Party`s in no mood to give them [voters] a reasonable choice with this clown show going on right now from the likes of, well, Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump. What a duo.

  Chris Matthews

  Party, Giving, Choices

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Being creative means first of all doing something unusual... On the other hand, however unusual it may be, the idea also has to be reasonable for people to take it seriously.

  Howard Gardner

  Mean, Hands, Ideas

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• I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Government, Two

  "Rand Paul Says He Has A Tea Party 'Mandate'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. May 19, 2010.

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• In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.

  Bill Gates

  Energy, World, Helping

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• The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist (our friends being friends only in the light of an agreeable folly which travels with us through life and to which we readily accommodate ourselves, but which at the bottom of our hearts we know to be no more reasonable than the delusion of the man who talks to the furniture because he believes that it is alive.).

  Marcel Proust

  Giving Up, Believe, Heart

  Marcel Proust (1970). “The past recaptured”, Random House (NY)

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• Democracy can thrive only when it enlists the devotion of those whom Lincoln called the common people. Democracy can hold that devotion only when it adequately respects their dignity by so ordering society as to assure to the masses of men and women reasonable security and hope for themselves and for their children.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Children, Men, People

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• And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sweet, Men, Numbers

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.66, Cambridge University Press

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• The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Ignorance, Bystanders

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.206, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• I am the first male member of my family for about three generations who can have reasonable confidence in expecting that I will leave this earth with more or less the same number of fingers, hands, legs, toes and eyes as I had when I was born.

  Neil Kinnock

  Death, Eye, Hands

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• At various times in the next 20 or 30 years I think it reasonable to anticipate that I will be among the leadershp of the Labour Party, but as far as being leader, I can't see it happening, and I'm not particularly keen on it happening.

  Neil Kinnock

  Party, Thinking, Years

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• You feel kind of weird cheering for chaos. There is that sense that the crazier it gets, the better off we are. Before, when I was part of the American public, I was hoping for a reasonable and quick solution to the impeachment process. Now, I'm hoping for partisan bedlam and chaos. It's really what serves me best.

  Jon Stewart

  Cheer, Chaos, Kind

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• Most Americans don't live their lives solely as Democrats or Republicans or conservatives or liberals. Most Americans live their lives that are just a little bit late for something they have to do. Often it's something they do not want to do, but they do it. Impossible things get done every day that are only made possible by the little, reasonable compromises.

  Jon Stewart

  Impossible Things, Done, Want

  Closing speech at "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear", October 30, 2010.

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• The fact is that the camera is literal if anything, which gives it something in common with a thermometer... Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty. There is sleight of hand in photography... you make the viewer think he's seeing everything while at the same time you make him realize he's not. I try to make my pictures seem reasonable and then, at the last minute, pull the rug from beneath the viewer's feet, very gently so there's a little thrill.

  John Loengard

  Photography, Reality, Thinking

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• Easiest job you could ever have... whoever gets to put Michael Jackson in a witness chair and create reasonable doubt.

  Richard Jeni

  Jobs, Doubt, Chairs

  "A Big, Steaming Pile Of Me". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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• We can begin ever so modestly. We can begin with a one week's food supply and gradually build it to a month, and then to three months. I am speaking now of food to cover basic needs. . .I fear that so many feel that a long-term food supply is so far beyond their reach that they make no effort at all. . .Begin in a small way, ... and gradually build toward a reasonable objective.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Long, Effort, Three

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• Met a girl the other nite and told her- Before you can be with someone you have to know the value of yourself. So does $200 seem reasonable?

  Bob Saget

  Girl, Doe, Mets

  Twitter post from Aug 03, 2013

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• Monogamy is god's way of making death seem like a more reasonable option.

  Dov Davidoff

  Death, Way, Monogamy

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Oct 14, 2011

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• Approximately 82% of the American people believe labeling should take place with regard to genetically engineered ingredients. All over this country people are increasingly concerned about the quality of the food they are ingesting and the food they are giving to their kids. People want to know what is in their food, and I believe that is a very reasonable request.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Believe, Kids

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• It's good to be around people who see [photography] as a reasonable enterprise when everyone in the neighborhood may think it's ridiculous. (On the benefit of teaching photography)

  John Divola

  Photography, Teaching, Thinking

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• Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.

  Blaise Pascal

  Ought, Declaring, Customs

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.186

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• A reasonable man adjusts himself to the world. An unreasonable man expects the world to adjust itself to him. Therefore all progress is made by unreasonable people.

  Confucius

  Men, People, Progress

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• Who is the enemy? Who is holding back more rapid movement to the better society that is reasonable and possible with available resources?...Evil, stupidity, apathy, the 'system' are not the enemy...The real enemy is fuzzy thinking on the part of good, intelligent, vital people...In short, the enemy is strong natural servants who have the potential to lead but do not lead, or who choose to follow a non-servant.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Strong, Real, Intelligent

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• It is so obvious to every reasonable being that he did not make himself, and the world in which he inhabits could as little make itself, that the moment we begin to exercise the power of reflection, it seems impossible to escape the conviction that there is a Creator.

  John Quincy Adams

  Exercise, Reflection, World

  John Quincy Adams (1848). “Letters of John Quincy Adams, to His Son, on the Bible and Its Teachings”, p.23

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