Top 1200 Reasonable Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

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

I take it that reasonable human conduct is part of the ordinary course of things.

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

No one ever made a million bucks by being cautious or timid or reasonable.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

Someday I'd like to be a father, not of a human child, but something more reasonable.

I want to be able to do anything. I know it's probably not reasonable to expect, but that's what I'd like to do.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.

Here seems now no reasonable justification for continuing any civil plutonium program.

Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.

Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold.

The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.

It's widely accepted that it is reasonable for a government to use tax policy to change behaviour.

The first thing the reasonable man must do is to be content with a very little knowledge and a very great deal of ignorance. The second thing he must do is to make the utmost possible use of the knowledge he has and not waste his energy crying for the moon. The third thing he must do is try and see clearly where his knowledge ends and his ignorance begins.

I am a conservative thinker, well known as such, outspoken as such but reasonable in my view.

PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it.

I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity.

Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing.

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

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

It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.

The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.

It's often been said, "Violence never solved anything." The simple truth is that when you are slammed up against the wall and the knife is at your throat, when a circle of teenagers is kicking you as you curl into a ball on the sidewalk, or when the man walks into your office building or school with a pair of guns and starts shooting, only violence, or the reasonable threat of violence, is going to save your life. In the extreme moment, only force can stop force.

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

I'm a reasonable guy, but I've just experienced some very unreasonable things.

It is reasonable not to make any budget adjustments in the first quarter of 2015

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

The only reasonable outcome of a nation's sins is to learn not to repeat them.

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

I had found my niche working in a trade I love with reasonable hours.

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

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

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

What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?

I think it's reasonable: you can own your nerd credibility when you're an astronaut.

The whole point of doing the pay what you want is to be reasonable with the fans.

One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do.

If you think about the unthinkable long enough it becomes quite reasonable.

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.

Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return--Get very drunk; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.

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

Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.

I think any reasonable person knows which reporters to eliminate.

Children have no reasonable assumption of privacy while they are minors in their parent's home.

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

There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.

Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.

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

We are giving the citizens of Poland a sense that a reasonable and predictable government is ruling here.

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