Reasonable Quotes - Page 25

• One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Sex, Women, Politics

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

  H. G. Wells

  Time, Peace, War

  H. G. Wells (2012). “The Salvaging of Civilization: The Probable Future of Mankind”, p.32, The Floating Press

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• It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

  H. G. Wells

  Peace, War, Men

  "The Salvaging of Civilization".

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• A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.

  Mae West

  Love, Funny, Life

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.

  Ellen G. White

  May, Restriction, Theory

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• If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is it reasonable to presume they would have wanted to provide the reward of citizenship to the children of the violators of those laws? Surely not.

  George Will

  Children, Law, Immigration

  "An argument to be made about immigrant babies and citizenship" by George F. Will, www.washingtonpost.com. March 28, 2010.

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• By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

  E. O. Wilson

  Achievement, Enlightenment, Justified

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.72, Vintage

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• Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors with a strong return in a reasonable amount of time. A strong return is three times cash on cash. A reasonable amount of time is ten years max.

  Fred Wilson

  Strong, Years, Long

  "Can the Crowd Be More Patient" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012.

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• We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Car, House, Lovely

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• You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.

  Emil Zatopek

  Sports, Goal, Trying

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Division, Earth

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Mountain, Tall

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• Internet porn makes everything more reasonable -- once you've realized there is a massive subculture of upwardly mobile people who think it's erotic to see an Asian woman giving a hand job to a javelina, nothing else in the world seems crazy.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Jobs, Crazy, Thinking

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• Any humane and reasonable person must conclude that if the ends, however desireable, are uncertain and the means are horrible and certain, these means must not be employed.

  Howard Zinn

  Mean, Ends, Uncertain

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• The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana makes no sense.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Weed, Marijuana, Jeans

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not being more than, say, five minutes late. It is therefore clearly as almost infinite variable figure according to circumstances, since the first two factors vary not only with speed as an absolute, but also with awareness of the third factor. Unless handled with tranquility, this equation can result in considerable stress, ulcers, and even death.

  Douglas Adams

  Stress, Two, Variables

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.111, Pan Macmillan

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• It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.

  Tim O'Brien

  War, Mistake, Views

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Doubt, World

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Problems of Philosophy”, Bertrand Russell

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• All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

  Charles Dickens

  Self, Words Of Wisdom, Crowns

  Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.254

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

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Dalai Lama urges students to shape world" by Hal Bernton, community.seattletimes.nwsource.com. May 15, 2001.

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• Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.

  John Steinbeck

  Business, Men, Clothes

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.64, Penguin

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• They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun... They were dressed half for battle, half for tennis or croquet.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fun, War, Tennis

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• You’re pretty sharp, Clive. Do you believe in God?” Clive smiled. “I don’t know, should I?” Actually, approaching the matter from a purely logical perspective, yes. All the evidence points to the existence of a creator. The single greatest body of evidence is the dismal failure of man’s desperate attempts to come up with a reasonable alternative, beginning with evolution. I’ve always looked at the universe and seen a creator as plainly as most people who look at the ocean see water.

  Ted Dekker

  Believe, Ocean, Men

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• She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

  Jane Austen

  Wise, Being Wise, Alas

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.372

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• And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain. Therefore, Farewell.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Farewell, Leisure

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