Reasonable Quotes - Page 27

• It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mother, Art, Powerful

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.152, Stanford University Press

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• oh my god, she said are you going to be reasonable about this?

  Meg Cabot

  Said

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• You are pooped and demoralised,” read Dwayne. “Why wouldn’t you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Breakfast Of Champions, Reason, Courses

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• He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.

  John Irving

  Coincidence, Young, Novel

  "John Irving's Last Night in Twisted River". Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. January 29, 2010.

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• You still haven't managed to heal the scars left by some of the injustices committed against you in your life and it doesn't do you any good. All it does is feed a constant desire to feel sorry for yourself, because you were the victim of people stronger than you. Or else it makes you go to the other extreme and disguise yourself as an avenger ready to strike out at the people who hurt you. Isn't that a waste of time?...It is human, but it's not intelligent or reasonable.

  Paulo Coelho

  Hurt, Sorry, Intelligent

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• Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only creature in the entire Universe who has free will. You are the only one who has to figure out what to do next - and why. Everybody else is a robot, a machine. Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines. You are pooped and demoralized, " read Dwayne. "Why wouldn't you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, Brave, Next

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• I didn't like having reasonable arguments thrown at me.

  Richelle Mead

  Argument, Thrown

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.100, Penguin

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• Do I look like I have anything ?" I asked him, in a reasonable voice. He looked as unnerved as the nurse had. He said, "Sorry," and backed away. I took a step after him. I screamed, "I HAVE NOTHING!" And then I said, in a perfectly calm voice, "See, I never had anything to start with.

  Charlaine Harris

  Sorry, Voice, Nurse

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1432, Penguin

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• TRIAD: Three separate highways intersect at a place no reasonable person would ever want to go. Three lives that would have been cut short, if not for hasty interventions by loved ones. Or Fate. Three people, with nothing at all in common except age, proximity, and a wish to die. Three tapestries, tattered at the edges and come unwoven to reveal a single mutual thread.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Fate, Cutting, Wish To Die

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Life, Dream, Strong Women

  "Twilight". Book by Stephenie Meyer, October 5, 2005.

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• HARRY DRESDEN—WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment

  Jim Butcher

  Party, Advice, Wizards

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.17, Penguin Group

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• It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, Integrity, War

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• When all else failed, she tried being reasonable.

  Terry Pratchett

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Johnny and the Bomb”, p.49, Random House

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• One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadn’t, and one of us held on to the ambition of the one idea far longer than was reasonable, whereas the other, passing a garbage can one night, had casually thrown it away.

  Nicole Krauss

  Love, Ambition, Night

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.39, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic, an authority which by one word transforms as by magic the reasonable creature one calls man into a caricature.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Believe, Men, Suffering

  "Stages on Life's Way". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, 1845.

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

  Richelle Mead

  Loss, People, Common

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1174, Penguin

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• 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

  Nature, Blood, Voice

  Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.20, Cambridge University Press

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• Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained - if you ate animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time.

  Harper Lee

  Cat, Eye, Animal

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no gesture. Reason: the rust of our vitality. It is the madman in us who forces us to adventure; once he abandons us, we are lost; everything depends on him, even our vegetative life; it is he who invites us, who obliges us to breathe, and it is also he who forces our blood to venture through our veins. Once he withdraws, we are alone indeed! We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Strong, Adventure, Blood

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• Every promise of Scripture is a writing of God, which may be pleaded before Him with this reasonable request, 'Do as Thou hast said.' The Heavenly Father will not break His Word to His own child.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Father, Writing

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1883). “Illustrations and Meditations: Or, Flowers from a Puritan's Garden”

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• Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

  Voltaire

  People

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• I don't remember you being this reasonable before, " Lissa said. "It's because everyone has different definitions of 'reasonable. ' Mine's just misunderstood, that's all. " Christian's voice was lofty. "I think you must be misunderstood a lot, " she laughed. His eyes held hers, and the smile on his face transformed into something warmer and softer. "Well, I hope this isn't misunderstood. Otherwise, I might get punched. " Leaning over, he brought his lips to hers. Lissa responded with no hesitation or thought whatsoever, losing herself in the sweetness of the kiss.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Eye, Kissing

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• Or. I hate that word. It’s two letters long and stuffed to the gills with reasonable doubt.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hate, Two, Long

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.499, Simon and Schuster

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• Nobody likes me!" "I wish I could like you, Charlie Brown, but I can't... If I were to like you, it would be admitting that I was lowering my standards! You wouldn't want me to do that, would you? Be reasonable! I have standards that I have set up for liking people, and you just don't meet those standards! It wouldn't be reasonable for me to like you!" "I hate myself for being so unreasonable!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Hate, People, Wish

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• What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me - that I understand. And these two certainties - my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle - I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my conditions?

  Albert Camus

  Lying, Mean, Two

  "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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