Reasonable Quotes - Page 29

• Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Inquiry, Found, Explanation

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• Be reasonable. I know you can be. If you try very, very hard.” - Al to Rachel

  Kim Harrison

  Trying, Als, Knows

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• I was so tired of being told reasonable, practical things whenever something went wrong with my life.

  Richelle Mead

  Tired, Practicals, Practical Things

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.240, Penguin

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• 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

  People, Wake Up, Waking

  Diana Rowland (2011). “My Life as a White Trash Zombie: A White Trash Zombie Novel”, p.45, Penguin

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• My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. I'm a wizard. I work out of an office in midtown Chicago. As far as I know, I'm the only openly practicing professional wizard in the country. You can find me in the yellow pages, under "Wizards." Believe it or not, I'm the only one there. My ad looks like this: HARRY DRESDEN — WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment You'd be surprised how many people call just to ask me if I'm serious.

  Jim Butcher

  Country, Party, Believe

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.21, Penguin

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• ...a miracles is a reasonable thing to ask for.

  Marianne Williamson

  Miracle, Asks

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• We all want explanations for why we behave as we do and for the ways the world around us functions. Even when our feeble explanations have little to do with reality. We’re storytelling creatures by nature, and we tell ourselves story after story until we come up with an explanation that we like and that sounds reasonable enough to believe. And when the story portrays us in a more glowing and positive light, so much the better.

  Dan Ariely

  Believe, Reality, Light

  "The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves". Book by Dan Ariely, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2012.

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• Lastly, tea--unless one is drinking it in the Russian style--should be drunk WITHOUT SUGAR. I know very well that I am in a minority here. But still, how can you call yourself a true tea-lover if you destroy the flavour of your tea by putting sugar in it? It would be equally reasonable to put in pepper or salt. Tea is meant to be bitter, just as beer is meant to be bitter. If you sweeten it, you are no longer tasting the tea, you are merely tasting the sugar; you could make a very similar drink by dissolving sugar in plain hot water.

  George Orwell

  Drinking, Beer, Drunk

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “Smothered under journalism: 1946”

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• Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable

  Milan Kundera

  Pain, Reason

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• We must not be satisfied to present Christianity as the most reliable position to hold among the competing options available. Rather, the Christian faith is the only reasonable outlook available to men.

  Greg L. Bahnsen

  Christian, Men, Outlook

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• I often think of death. True. Suicide is a reasonable option. True. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I leave it blank.

  James Frey

  Suicide, Thinking, Sin

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.66, Anchor

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• What's the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?

  Cassandra Clare

  Idiot, Annoying, Will Herondale

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Forgiveness is a mystical act, not a reasonable one.

  Caroline Myss

  Mystical, Mysticism

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2014

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• He held her gaze steady while he summarized her promises. “She will honor me, protect me, obey me only when she believes I’m being reasonable—but I shouldn’t hold out hope that that day will ever come—try to love me before she’s an old woman, and I’d better get it straight in my mind that she will respect me until or unless I do something to prove I’m not worthy, and God save me then. Have I left anything out, Brenna?

  Julie Garwood

  Believe, Honor, Promise

  Julie Garwood (2011). “The Wedding”, p.54, Penguin

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• Carter was so taken aback by her attack he dropped his knife. “You knocked him stupid,” he bellowed. “No,” Emily corrected in what she believed was a reasonable tone of voice. “He was already stupid. I knocked him out.

  Julie Garwood

  Stupid, Taken, Knives

  Julie Garwood (2010). “The Clayborne Brides: One Pink Rose, One White Rose, One Red Rose”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• In this one terrified moment, my mind couldn’t focus on any of it. “I’ve forgotten everything.” “No, you haven’t.” His voice in the darkness was calm and reassuring. He smoothed back my hair and pressed one of those half kisses to my forehead. “Just relax and focus." “His reasonable words centered me and allowed the gears of logic that ran my life to take over again.

  Richelle Mead

  Kissing, Hair, Voice

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.203, Penguin

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• I was glad when the Invalids were executed. Some people complained that lethal injection was too humane for convicted terrorists, but I thought it sent a powerful message: We are not the evil ones. We are reasonable and compassionate. We stand for fairness, structure, and organization. It’s the other side, the uncureds, who bring the chaos.

  Lauren Oliver

  Powerful, Organization, People

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• What America is, to me, is a guy doesn't want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy has a crazy notion different from your crazy notion, you pat him on the back and say, Hey pal, nice crazy notion, let's go have a beer. America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamorous reasonable voice.

  George Saunders

  Crazy, Nice, Beer

  George Saunders (2013). “The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil: (Includes the 'In Persuasion Nation' collection)”, p.120, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Judgement, Emotion

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Oblivion seemed the only reasonable option.

  Ian Mcewan

  Oblivion

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• Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Rights, Often Is, Important

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• I know. Life is so unfair. I'm still not going to pee on Karou's ex-boyfriend for you." "What? I wasn't even going to ask you to." In her most reasonable tone, Zuzana explained explained, "I just want you to pee in a balloon so I can drop it on him.

  Laini Taylor

  Ex Boyfriend, Want, Tone

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• Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

  Lena Dunham

  Reading, Add, Week

  twitter.com. April 27, 2013.

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• The American poultry industry had made it possible to grow a fine-looking fryer in record time and sell it at a reasonable price, but no one mentioned that the result usually tasted like the stuffing inside of a teddy bear.

  Julia Child

  Food, Records, Poultry

  Julia Child (2009). “My Life in France”, p.173, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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  The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18

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