Reasonable Quotes - Page 35

• I do have a dominant shopping gene but, unlike a reasonable person, I never plan for what I need each season. I enjoy the thrill of the hunt, the discovery and the endless search. In another creation I was, perhaps, a hunter/gatherer. After all these years, I’ve learned that it’s not the end result or finished product but the process I most enjoy. If my experimenting, searching and juxtaposing turns into an exciting outfit well, it’s just a big fat bonus!

  Iris Apfel

  Discovery, Years, Shopping

  28 Copy quote

• Nuclear power generation has been given a thrust by the use of uranium-based fuel which US is set to supply to India if the deal comes through. However, there would be a requirement for ten-fold increase in nuclear power generation even to attain a reasonable degree of energy self-sufficiency for our country.

  Abdul Kalam

  Country, Self, India

  8 Copy quote

• But what is significant is that if you don't want to like and accept somebody, one excuse is as good as another. The objective facts don't matter, and the reasons are never as ‘reasonable' as we like to think they are.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Thinking, Want, Matter

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The things they have actually accomplished all over America should be an inspiration to every reasonable person and an everlasting answer to all the grievous insults that have been heaped on the heads of the unemployed.

  Harry Hopkins

  Inspiration, America, Answers

  32 Copy quote

• And what I thought, every time I thought about my father, every time his name came up, was quite simply: I WANT TO KILL YOU. I wanted to be more mature, more reasonable, I wanted to have a big, fat, forgiving heart that could contain all this rage and still find room for kind, beneficent love, but I didn't have it in me. I just didn't.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Father, Heart, Names

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• An uprising of the reasonable is our only chance.

  Keith Olbermann

  Uprising, Chance

  Keith Olbermann @KeithOlbermann, twitter.com. July 22, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The monetary policy of the United States has a major impact on global liquidity and capital flows and therefore, the liquidity of the US dollar should be kept at a reasonable and stable level.

  Hu Jintao

  Impact, United States, Dollars

  17 Copy quote

• I thought it reasonable that I should seek the work where the work was the most abundant and the workers fewest.

  James Gilmour

  Missionary, Should, Missions

  45 Copy quote

• Lord, bring honor to thy Son at my expense, whatever the cost, and send me the bill. It is my reasonable service - He paid mine.

  Carl Baugh

  Son, Honor, Missionary

  45 Copy quote

• ...even on the low ground of common sense I seemed to be called to be a missionary. Is the kingdom a harvest field? Then I thought it reasonable that I should seek to work where the work was most abundant and the workers fewest.

  William Carey

  Common Sense, Missionary, Kingdoms

  53 Copy quote

• The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence

  Bertrand Russell

  War, Men, Love Is

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.74, Routledge

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most people are reasonable. That's why they only do reasonably well.

  Paul Arden

  People, Wells

  15 Copy quote

• We live by faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds. What asks our Father of His children, save Justice and mercy and humility, A reasonable service of good deeds, Pure living, tenderness to human needs, Reverence and trust, and prayer for light to see The Master's footprints in our daily ways? No knotted scourge nor sacrificial knife, But the calm beauty of an ordered life Whose very breathing is unworded praise! - A life that stands as all true lives have stood Firm-rooted in the faith that God is Good.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Life, Prayer, Children

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Religious Poems, Part 2., from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.90, tredition

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Terrorism [is] a biological consequence of the multinationals, just as a day of fever is the reasonable price of an effective vaccine . . . The conflict is between great powers, not between demons and heroes. Unhappily, therefore, is the nation that finds the "heroes" underfoot, especially if they still think in religious terms and involve the population in their bloody ascent to an uninhabited paradise.

  Umberto Eco

  Religious, Hero, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud of those parts of it that are most commonly called superstition. I am proud of being fettered by antiquated dogmas and enslaved by dead creeds (as my journalistic friends repeat with so much pertinacity), for I know very well that it is the heretical creeds that are dead, and that it is only the reasonable dogma that lives long enough to be called antiquated.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Humility, Men, Long

  4 Copy quote

• Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

  Mary Schmich

  Children, Noble, Politician

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.33, Agate Digital

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Of the Divine character of the Bible, I think, no man who deals honestly with his own mind and heart can entertain a reasonable doubt, For myself, I must say, that having for many years made the evidences of Christianity the subject of close study, the result has been a firm and increasing conviction of the authenticity and plenary inspiration of the Bible. It is indeed the Word of God.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Bible, God, Inspiration

  52 Copy quote

• This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose lost home exists only in their minds, and in the glowing crystal memory cells they all carry in the palms of their hands: a great idea of a second city, lit with life and love, reasonable drink prices at cool bars, and, of course, blocks and blocks of bright and devastating fire.

  John Hodgman

  Memories, Life And Love, Block

  John Hodgman (2012). “The Areas of My Expertise”, p.140, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Women would rather be right than reasonable.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Women, Inspiration

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.

  A. P. Herbert

  Funny, Humor, Men

  'Uncommon Law' (1935) 'The Reasonable Man'

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.

  John Dryden

  Philosophical, Learning, Math

  John Dryden, George Saintsbury, Sir Walter Scott (1892). “The Works of John Dryden: Poetical works”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.

  William Allen White

  Power, Weakness, Would Be

  William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, Thinking, Self

  "Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?". Essay by Immanuel Kant, 1784.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Block, Doubt, Permit

  Letter to Samuel B. Hill (chairman of House Ways and Means Committee), 6 July 1935

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.

  Raymond Chandler

  Honesty, Writing, Men

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.93, Univ of California Press

  64 Copy quote

  Show source