Unreasonable Quotes - Page 2

• I am tough. Sometimes I'm unreasonable. I have to catch myself every once in a while.

  George Steinbrenner

  Tough, Sometimes, Economy

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• Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere.

  Linda Lingle

  Jobs, Heart, School

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• I grinned at him. 'Jealous?' He grinned right back. 'That's a trick question. If I say yes you'll accuse me of being paranoid and unreasonable, and if I say no you'll make some defensive crack about how I don't think you're worth getting jealous over.' This is what I got for hooking up with a lawyer.

  Carrie Vaughn

  Jealous, Thinking, Cracks

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• All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Progress, Persons, Depends

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• What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  Years, May, Self Centered

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• In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.

  Alan Dundes

  Light, Trying, Culture

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• It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.

  Potter Stewart

  Constitution, Remembered, Seizures

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• Nothing drives your opponents more crazy than being utterly reasonable. And nothing makes demonizing or delegitimizing your opponents easier than letting them shriek unreasonable things for you. The Republicans need to get back to being the party that elicits unreasonable shrieking from their opponents. Not the other way around.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Crazy, Party, Needs

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• If it turns out that President Barack Obama can make a deal with the most intransigent, hard-line, unreasonable, totalitarian mullahs in the world but not with Republicans? Maybe he's not the problem.

  Jon Stewart

  Funny, Usa, America

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• In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  Finals, Analysis, Be Kind

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• Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  History, Amendments, Framers

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• The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.

  Potter Stewart

  Home, Men, Rights

  "Silverman v. United States, 365 U.S. 511". 1961.

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• It does not seem to me that the steps which would be needed to make Britain - and others - more comfortable in their relationship in the European Union are inherently so outlandish or unreasonable.

  David Cameron

  Steps, Doe, Would Be

  David Cameron's Speech about his plans for a referendum on British membership of the European Union, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2013.

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• Oh, I will be cruel to you, Marya Morevna. It will stop your breath, how cruel I can be. But you understand, don’t you? You are clever enough. I am a demanding creature. I am selfish and cruel and extremely unreasonable. But I am your servant. When you starve I will feed you; when you are sick I will tend you. I crawl at your feet; for before your love, your kisses, I am debased. For you alone I will be weak.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Clever, Selfish, Kissing

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.72, Macmillan

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• Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.

  Richard Mitchell

  Wisdom, Simple, Order

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• The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Progress, Needs

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• I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.

  Tanith Lee

  Hate, Trying, Care

  Tanith Lee (2002). “The Claidi journals”

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• It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Defense, Reason

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• Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved. Sometimes we are inclined to put up with a situation rather than endure. To endure is to bear up under, to stand firm against, to suffer without yielding, to continue to be, or to exhibit the state or power of lasting.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Greatness, Suffering, Bears

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religious, Atheist, If There Is A God

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.159, Library of Alexandria

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• If you are worried about the people outside, the most unreasonable thing you can do is remain outside yourself. Christians are Christ's body...every addition to that body enables Him to do more. If you want to help those outside you must add your own little cell to the body of Christ who along can help them. Cutting off a man's fingers would be a odd way of getting him to do more work.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Cutting, Men

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• When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.

  Al Franken

  Growing Up, Government, Talking

  "Privacy and civil liberties in the digital age" by Al Franken, www.wired.com. March 2, 2012.

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• Youth need guidance, direction, and proper restraint...Parents, too, have a responsibility in this training not to provoke children to wrath. They should be considerate not to irritate by vexatious commands or place unreasonable blame. Whenever possible they should give encouragement rather than remonstrance or reproof.

  David O. McKay

  Encouragement, Children, Responsibility

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• Could Afghanistan become another Vietnam? Is the United States facing another stalemate on the other side of the world? Premature the questions may be, three weeks after the fighting began. Unreasonable they are not, given the scars scoured into the national psyche by defeat in Southeast Asia. For all the differences between the two conflicts, and there are many, echoes of Vietnam are unavoidable.

  R. W. Apple

  Fighting, Echoes, Two

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• We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted.

  Philip Greenspun

  Self, Worried, Gunshots

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