Top 1200 Beyond A Reasonable Doubt Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

The Iranians have a lousy government, so therefore their economy is lousy, even though they have significant oil revenues. So I am convinced that together, we can, with the French, with the British, with the Germans and other countries, democracies around the world, we can affect Iranian behavior. But have no doubt, but have no doubt that the Iranians continue on the path to the acquisition of a nuclear weapon. And it is a threat not only in this region but around the world.

Precious beyond price are good resolutions. Valuable beyond price are good feelings.

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

I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.

Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it. The evidence is saying to us, 'There is another country. There is something beyond mere reason'.

We are for reasonable and sensible gun ownership so long as it's responsible in the way that criminals can't get it.

I had a lot of self-doubt when I started. And I still do. But I had a lot of the wrong kind of self-doubt when I first started making music and first started to tour. I think I was a little bit deferential.

And Seinfeld is so quick: we crank out one show a week, and the hours are very reasonable.

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

The education process is moving beyond the traditional classroom/lecture setting. More and more teachers are seeking tools and techniques to engage their classes and enrich their lessons. Video calling is one of these tools, as it removes barriers to communication and lets students move beyond the boundaries of their classrooms.

My advice after thirty years in the business is sign with an agency of reasonable size.

If we feel that our ministry has come to an end in one place, then it seems reasonable to move on.

"But to be hanged - is that not unendurable?" Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.

I can think of many reasonable excuses for needing a cocktail, but Cinco De Mayo is always a no-brainer.

It is a popular delusion that the scientific enquirer is under an obligation not to go beyond generalisation of observed facts...but anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond the facts, rarely get as far.

The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.

We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.

Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.

Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.

Doubt requires more courage than conviction does, and more energy; because conviction is a resting place and doubt is infinite – it is a passionate exercise. You may come out of my play uncertain. You may want to be sure. Look down on that feeling. We’ve got to learn to live with a full measure of uncertainty. There is no last word. That’s the silence under the chatter of our time.

No man can have a reasonable opinion of women until he has long lost interest in hair-restorers.

I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.

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

America's got quite reasonable tax rates from an employee point of view.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

The real doubt is the doubt that doubts that it doubts.

Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person, the consistently reasonable man.

I am the last person whom it would be reasonable to expect to leave the Conservative Party.

The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. Yet such things are a part of our life, neither the least noble nor the most terrible.

A religious belief is not a statement about Reality, but a hint, a clue about something that is a mystery, beyond the grasp of human thought. In short, a religious belief is only a finger pointing to the moon. Some religious people never get beyond the study of the finger. Others are engaged in sucking it. Others yet use the finger to gouge their eyes out. These are the bigots whom religion has made blind. Rare indeed is the religionist who is sufficiently detached from the finger to see what it is indicating - these are those who, having gone beyond belief, are taken for blasphemers.

No computer is ever going to ask a new, reasonable question. It takes trained people to do that.

Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and names, before heaven and earth, before the ten thousand things. It is the unlimited father and mother of all limited things. Therefore, to see beyond boundaries to the subtle heart of things, dispense with names, with concepts, with expectations and ambitions and differences. Tao and its many manifestations arise from the same source: subtle wonder within mysterious darkness. This is the beginning of all understanding.

...This is the first time I have met someone who seeks out people and who sees beyond. [...] We never look beyond our assumptions and, what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves. We don't recognize each other because other people have become our permanent mirrors. If we actually realized this, if we were to become aware of the fact that we are alone in the wilderness, we would go crazy. [...] As for me, I implore fate to give me the chance to see beyond myself and truly meet someone.

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

The sun has a sense of all-pervasive brilliance, which does not discriminate in the slightest. It is the goodness that exists in a situation, in oneself, and in one's world, which is expressed without doubt, hesitation, or regret. The sun principle also includes the notion of blessings descending upon us and creating sacred world. It also represents clarity, without doubt.

I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?

Any reasonable person can look at video games and see that we don't represent women well.

Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.

Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.

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

Reasonable people can debate whether or not social experiments like a Day of Absence are enlightening.

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind.

What if tomorrow someone digs up definitive proof that Jesus had a real, earthly, biological father named Larry, and archeologists find Larry's tomb and do DNA samples and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the virgin birth was just a bit of mythologizing the Gospel writers threw in to appeal to the followers of the Mithra and Dionysian religious cults that were hugely popular at the time of Jesus, whose gods had virgin births? Could you still be a Christian? Is the way of Jesus still the best possible way to live?

It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass.

I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

With the right support and reasonable adjustments, autistic people make wonderful employees.

The golf course is always in good shape. Paul Latshaw does a reasonable job.

Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being.

It is not difficult to deprive the great majority of independent thought. But the minority who will retain an inclination to criticize must also be silenced....Public criticism or even expressions of doubt must be suppressed because they tend to weaken pubic support....When the doubt or fear expressed concerns not the success of a particular enterprise but of the whole social plan, it must be treated even more as sabotage.

It is simply an invariable truth in the history of politics, in the history of government, that whenever a new power is acquired in the name of some threat, it always - not sometimes, not often, not usually -it always extends beyond its original application, beyond its original justification.

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

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.

A lot of young actresses have a hard time combining a reasonable love life with a career.