#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. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#expectation #going #increase #invaded #iraq

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#always #any #anything #carry #committee

I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#before #better #city #could #future

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#compromise #fight #going #hard #reasonable

I think us gals need to stay in and just change the way it works, so men aren't being workaholics and avoiding life and relationships, and they can make films in a reasonable amount of time, so you can have a family and a life outside of work. And have more balanced, content-driven, enjoyable movies. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#avoiding #balanced #being #change #enjoyable

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#experienced #i #i think #passion #reasonable

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

#advance #because #crossroads #enough #established

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#give #humane #i #lost #men

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#blind #craving #created #creating #driving

We got ratings. It isn't that they won't quarrel with you, or say you're always right. But as long as you stay strong and the ratings are good and you're reasonable - I don't think we fought unreasonably. We basically won that right. ↗

— Norman Lear

#basically #fought #good #got #i