Reasonable Quotes - Page 21

• This issue is not economic but political. I hope that all market participants interested in maintaining stable and reasonable world energy prices will finally make the right decision.

  Vladimir Putin

  Issues, Decision, Political

  Source: thesaker.is

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work the way he was going to anyway.

  Edward Albee

  Strong, Objectivity, Way

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.65, Univ. Press of Mississippi

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life is short and far too fragile. Whatever you dream of doing, begin. Put a first step or a "down payment" on your schedule and make it happen. Create memories. Have fun. Have an adventure. Take a (reasonable) risk. Be audacious. Laugh out loud. See what happens.

  John Bernard Philip Humbert, 9th Count de Salis-Soglio

  Life, Motivational, Dream

  5 Copy quote

• 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.

  Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

  Beauty, Country, Land

  Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Marco da Nizza (padre), Antonio de Mendoza (1964). “The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative”

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. On the road to tyranny, we've gone so far that polite political action is about as useless as a miniskirt in a convent. ... Something's eventually going to happen. Government will bloat until it chokes us to death, or one more tyrannical power grab will turn out to be one too many. ... Maybe it'll be one more round of "reasonable gun control" or one more episode of burning children to death to save them from "child abuse." Whatever, something will snap.

  Claire Wolfe

  Children, Gun, America

  15 Copy quote

• Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, he belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambitions of our brighter minds. The way for people to gain their reasonable rights is not by voluntarily throwing them away.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Ambition, Rights, People

  4 Copy quote

• Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man in the Cartesian tradition.

  Thomas McEvilley

  Plato, Men, Advice

  4 Copy quote

• Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs to us, on the other hand envy is a fury which cannot endure the happiness of others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Hands, Envy

  6 Copy quote

• Once I got a job singing and dancing, a reasonable person might think, "Maybe I should learn how to do this." But no, I never did.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Jobs, Thinking, Dancing

  "90-year-old Disney Legend’s Secret To Marrying A (Much) Younger Woman". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com.sg. October 3, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We've got some great big problems in our world. We have to figure out how to feed 10 billion people. Too many people can't access clean water, quality healthcare, and reasonable education. We have to figure out what to do about climate change, income inequality, and more. Innovators need to rise to the challenge!

  Scott D. Anthony

  Our World, Water, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Morality has in the past made progress when we broadened the category of things we weren't permitted to harm (animals, 'infidels'); saw through some delusions and rationalisations about what harms are good for people themselves (prison punishment, hysterectomies for unhappy 1950s wives); and readjusted our for-the-good of others criteria so as to demand only reasonable sacrifices (ceasing to use children as handy chimney sweeps).

  Catherine Wilson

  Children, Sacrifice, Animal

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some achieve a reputation for great successes when in fact all they have done is take chances that reasonable people wouldn't take.

  Daniel Kahneman

  People, Done, Facts

  "Strategic decisions: When can you trust your gut?". Interview with Olivier Sibony and Dan Lovallo, www.mckinsey.com. March 2010.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• If people are going to do post-publication peer review, they need to abide by the same rules as they abide by for pre-publication peer review: not being ad hominem, being respectful, giving the author a chance to respond in a reasonable way.

  Susan Fiske

  Giving, People, Peer Review

  "We talked to the scientist at the center of a brutal firestorm in the field of psychology". Interview with Rafi Letzter, www.businessinsider.com. September 26, 2016.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• In many European countries we have populist indirect democratic systems. The people elect, in a proportionate manner, a parliament. The parliament with all its parties is representative of the political opinions among the citizens. It is reasonable to claim that the people rule itself through the political institutions.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Country, Party, Political Opinions

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The US two party system is very different, of course. Here the people decides about who should rule them, but it is not reasonable to claim that the people rules itself through the political institutions. In comparison, I find that the standard European system is better, also as a model for global democracy.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Party, Two, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We have to be reasonable people.

  Shimon Peres

  People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time. I'm a home-body and get fatigued by it fairly soon, but enjoy thinking back on experiences when I've returned and then often wish I'd arranged a longer stay in the somewhat exotic place.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Home, Thinking, Long

  Source: genius.cat-v.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's an individual morality in values that matters in these companies [like Wells Fargo]. I mean, they ought to clean house. And they ought to figure out how to claw back all this money. That is a given. In terms of additional laws, there are reasonable approaches to this, but I'd have to see what they are. I'm not a federal lawmaker.

  John Kasich

  Mean, Law, House

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Somebody realized, hey, students are printing dummy ads and dummy news stories, why don't they really print something. So there was the Shortridge Daily Echo, and a hell of a lot of writers have come out of Shortridge on that account. The head writer of the I Love Lucy show, Madelyn Pugh, was a schoolmate of mine. Dan Wakefield. Writing was a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Echoes, News Stories

  4 Copy quote

• I disagreed with the way the court applied the Second Amendment in Heller's case, because what the District of Columbia was trying to do was to protect toddlers from guns and so they wanted people with guns to safely store them. And the court didn't accept that reasonable regulation, but they've accepted many others. So I see no conflict between saving people's lives and defending the Second Amendment.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, People, Second Amendment

  Source: time.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What does have a chance of becoming law is a process that begins with securing the border. Currently the border is not secure and not just immigrants are coming across, but also drugs, weapons a whole series of problems. And I think that if you can prove to the American people that illegal immigration is under control, I think that the American people are willing to do something very reasonable about people who have been here for many years, who are not criminals, who are going to pay a fine, who are going to pay taxes, who are working.

  Marco Rubio

  Thinking, Years, Law

  Source: www.univision.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some of the younger people afford hope for the future. I am not opposed to reform initiatives. For example, if you can build up enough popular support in the United States to put through a reasonable health care program or to support the rights of the working people against the version of NAFTA which was rammed through, these can be good things.

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, People, Support

  4 Copy quote

• In the States, the movement's actually gotten much much much stronger. There really was no climate movement so to speak before that - I think because everybody assumed that reasonable heads would prevail and do the right thing - and why would you need to have a huge movement in order to cause our leaders to deal with the most serious problem that they face. In a rational world you wouldn't. They would deal with it.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Order, Leader

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• People can make arguments from the Bible if they want to. But I want them to see that they should also give arguments that all reasonable citizens might agree to.

  John Rawls

  People, Giving, Citizens

  John Rawls, Samuel Richard Freeman (1999). “Collected Papers”, p.620, Harvard University Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I assumed, "Well, I must've sounded like Conan O'Brien, or a reasonable facsimile or something." And there I am in the movie [South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut ]. I was very lucky.

  Brent Spiner

  Parks, Lucky, Conan

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source