Top 235 Reasonable Quotes

I hope that everyone who believes that the right to life is fundamental will make their voice heard in a reasonable, but forthright, way to their representatives, reminding them that the right to life is conferred on human beings not by the powerful ones of this world but by the Creator.
Sean Brady
One of my psychoses is that I feel like I can do anything. Actually, I believe anybody can do and make anything, even things that don’t exist. The making isn’t the hard part; it’s having faith. If you do only reasonable things, you’ll never start your own business.
Bre Pettis
I’m quite careful. I like to buy nice things for myself, but I like to also be reasonable. I think I’m pretty careful.
Caroline Wozniacki
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
Samuel Johnson
In villages across the developing world, governments have provided reasonable enough latrines that have again and again been turned into storage spaces or simply abandoned. In India alone, millions of government-funded latrines have become goat-sheds. Some had been built near kitchens, a taboo in Indian households.
Rose George
I always thought that socialism here would be peculiarly American, with some reasonable, post-industrial evolution between working-class needs and market forces. It won’t be bloody like the Russian Revolution.
Howard Fast
Let’s find those areas where modest and reasonable tax cuts will have the biggest positive impact on our economy, and which will improve the lives of those who need it most: working families, retirees, and small business owners.
Larry Hogan
Regardless of what the future holds, intelligent investment in common stocks offer a solid route for a reasonable return on investment going forward.
Michael Burry
You can only argue with reasonable people.
Kashmira Shah
It’s a reasonable thing to tell somebody, ‘I’ve watched 70 hours of ‘Game of Thrones.” That’s a totally normal, boring thing to say about yourself. But if you were like, ‘I just spent 100 hours playing ‘Skyrim,” people think you’re a weirdo.
Jon Lovett
The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
What I really – and I would like to clarify my position, to topple Hamas. And I think it’s possible to bring reasonable people, moderate people to take power in Gaza Strip.
Avigdor Lieberman
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Don’t always be so reasonable and practical and sensible that you refuse to seize glorious opportunities when they show up and push the envelope as to what’s possible for you.
Robin S. Sharma
With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.
C. S. Forester
Something different has to be done before we make another budget deal that increases spending and raises the debt some more. Our current course is not reasonable. Our current course is insane.
Ron DeSantis
Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.
Stuart Rose
I have said repeatedly that the way to sustainable growth is to bring down inflation to much more reasonable levels.
Raghuram Rajan
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
The usefulness of religion – the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good – is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It’s not an argument that it’s reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.
Sam Harris
I think reasonable people could agree that, at some point, there’s enough income that someone should be expected to participate in the health-care system.
Ron Williams
We have to fulfill what the real meaning of the Second Amendment is: reasonable access to guns for self-protection and for hunting. And there’s no room in America for these semiautomatic, automatic and other kinds of weapons that are simply designed to cause mass havoc.
Alan Dershowitz
Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.
Gary Miller
It is only reasonable that our laws do not force our country to provide safe harbor to those individuals that are being sought out by their governments due to their terrorist ties.
Bill Shuster
We’ve had a tone-deaf White House that does not want to be reasonable. President Obama won’t meet with the Republicans. It’s all his way.
Chris Smith
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God’s image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.
John Milton
Let me just say, I think there’s a reasonable criticism to be made of the Obama administration on the way that it left Iraq.
Dexter Filkins
A woman in love can’t be reasonable – or she probably wouldn’t be in love.
Mae West
We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.
Fred Thompson
Cheney was among the best secretaries of defence the country has ever had. He was a very effective White House chief of staff. He did not make many enemies, and he had the ability to persuade people with that soft tone and very reasonable style of his. He’s always been exceptionally good as the right-hand man.
Barton Gellman
Mother always tries to buy things for a reasonable price. I was never allowed to buy things at full price. Probably, it’s rooted in the Chinese mentality. We are very thrifty.
Jimmy O. Yang
Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal of our foreign policy tools, whether they be by the stick or by the carrot.
Nick Rahall
A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable.
Lord Hailsham
Give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price, and they’ll more likely pay for it rather than steal it. Well, some will still steal it, but I think we can take a bite out of piracy.
Kevin Spacey
Well, I’m at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don’t know which way to take. It’s not about money, I mean, because I’m established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction.
Helen Garner
It’s widely assumed that you can’t compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience.
John Perry Barlow
Did I develop any ruses of my own in order to buy what I wanted at a reasonable price? In time, of course, anyone who has ever done real business in an oriental bazaar will learn the tricks and feints of buying and bargaining there.
James Ivory
It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.
Martin Seligman
We are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors, and we’ve managed over more than two centuries to create a way of life that allows for a reasonable degree of upward mobility, that prizes individual liberty, promotes freedom of religion and genuinely values equal rights for all citizens.
Jay Parini
It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.
Mary Douglas
I support safeguarding users’ personally identifiable information and sensitive data like health or financial records. I also believe the government has a responsibility to punish deceptive and unfair practices that defy reasonable expectations about consumers’ privacy.
Marsha Blackburn
Given Mr. Obama’s lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.
Jim Talent
I was married for like seven, eight years. And then coming out of that I was like, ‘Okay, now what? I guess I would like to date? That’s a reasonable thing. I’m allowed to have that!’
Laura Jane Grace
I really want to see good health care brought to all the people of Alabama at a reasonable cost.
Robert J. Bentley
The president's duty to faithfully execute his office i

The president’s duty to faithfully execute his office includes not only a duty of loyalty to the nation but also a duty of care – a duty to act with reasonable diligence and upon a reasonable basis.
George T. Conway III
I tend to relate more to people on television who are just themselves, for good or for bad, than I do to someone who I believe is putting on some sort of persona. The anchorman on ‘The Simpsons’ is a reasonable facsimile of some anchors who have that problem.
Anderson Cooper
I did my first series lead back in 1991 on a show called ‘Reasonable Doubts’ and have done many shows with other actors who are deaf. But ‘Switched at Birth’ is the first TV show where there is more than one actor who is deaf or hard of hearing and who are series regulars.
Marlee Matlin
In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it’s at the extreme end of their experience.
Dean Koontz
No one wants to live in a wheelchair unable to talk, only winking once for yes and twice for no. It’s perfectly reasonable that there will come a point where the balance of judgment of life over death swings the other way.
Tony Judt
Police officers must follow the rules to be able to question if there’s reasonable suspicion that someone is carrying that firearm.
Eric Adams
It should surprise no one that I’m out arguing for small government, reduced spending and getting our financial house in order, along with reasonable regulations and no more.
Mike Pompeo