Reasonable Quotes (232 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Emil Zatopek
„You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.“
― Emil Zatopek ―
Picture of quotation author Mark Zandi
„No one should expect the value of their house to appreciate quickly - counting on your home to be a significant part of your retirement saving isn't a winning strategy - but it is reasonable to expect that prices generally will rise with at least the rate of inflation for some time to come.“
― Mark Zandi ―
Picture of quotation author Tim Yeo
„I personally think that a couple of pounds a week - maybe rising to almost £3 a week - is a reasonable price for Britain to achieve a degree of energy security to reduce its total dependence on fossil fuels and to honour its commitments to cut green house gases.“
― Tim Yeo ―
Picture of quotation author Ron Wyden
„It is unclear exactly how many law enforcement agencies are currently using this capability, but it is reasonable to say that while resource limitations used to discourage the government from tracking you without a good reason, these constraints have largely disappeared.“
― Ron Wyden ―
Picture of quotation author Caroline Wozniacki
„My parents just always taught me to be reasonable.“
Picture of quotation author Reese Witherspoon
„We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.“
Picture of quotation author Teddy Wilson
„Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.“
― Teddy Wilson ―
Picture of quotation author E. O. Wilson
„By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.“
― E. O. Wilson ―
Picture of quotation author William John Wills
„What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.“
Picture of quotation author Walter Jon Williams
„I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.“
Picture of quotation author George Will
„If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is it reasonable to presume they would have wanted to provide the reward of citizenship to the children of the violators of those laws? Surely not.“
― George Will ―
Picture of quotation author Ellen G. White
„The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.“
― Ellen G. White ―
Picture of quotation author Mae West
„A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.“
― Mae West ―
Picture of quotation author H. G. Wells
„It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.“
― H. G. Wells ―
Picture of quotation author H. G. Wells
„A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.“
― H. G. Wells ―
Picture of quotation author H. G. Wells
„While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.“
― H. G. Wells ―
Picture of quotation author Peter Welch
„Last year, Congress passed a law that directs the Federal Reserve to set limits on debit card swipe fees that are reasonable and proportional to the cost of processing those transactions. Like most Americans, I had no idea that swipe fees charged to American businesses are the highest in the world.“
― Peter Welch ―
Picture of quotation author Henry Wade
„I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I - there's no question that he was the killer of President Kennedy.“
― Henry Wade ―
Picture of quotation author Evelyn Underhill
„Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.“
Picture of quotation author Barbara Tuchman
„Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.“
― Barbara Tuchman ―

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