#reasonable

Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#bow #concerned #immediately #letters #much

A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#expect #her #little #person #unreasonable

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

#always #eye #know #may #never

We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#country #expectation #individual #law #mental

Yeah, I guess everyone's had a reasonable amount of sex in their lives, some less than others. ↗

— Josh Silver

#everyone #guess #had #i #less

Newspapers across the country and the world have published cartoons that have gone beyond reasonable differences of opinion and expanded into the realm of antisemitism. ↗

— Gordon Smith

#antisemitism #beyond #cartoons #country #differences

I always try to be reasonable and effective. ↗

— Ian Smith

#effective #i #i always #reasonable #try

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

#crises #effort #executive #experience #given