#reasonable

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

#characters #driven #end #experience #extreme

When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable. ↗

— Ted Kotcheff

#i #i can #intelligent #me #meet

We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm. ↗

— Sol Wachtler

#allow #because #believed #cannot #crime

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#capricious #demands #discipline #easy #enough

All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people. ↗

— Alvar N. C. de Vaca

#country #fertile #good #grass #handsome

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

#beyond #certainty #doubt #i #kennedy

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

#dissension #dock #gamble #homicide #international

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

#any #been #behave #chance #cheerful

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

— H. G. Wells

#lives #men #own #pay #reasonable

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

— E. O. Wilson

#any #enlightenment #faith #justified #measure