#unreason

I am tough. Sometimes I'm unreasonable. I have to catch myself every once in a while. ↗

— George Steinbrenner

#catch #every #i #i am #myself

The constant need for special waivers is symptomatic of poorly written public policy. It's a signal that the cost of compliance is unreasonably high; the benefits are hard to measure; and either legislators or regulators have failed to do their homework. ↗

— John Sununu

#compliance #constant #constant need #cost #either

People hate as they love, unreasonably. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#love #people #unreasonably

I'm afraid of heights. Not unreasonably, but rationally afraid of heights. I think everyone is. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#everyone #heights #i #i think #rationally

A woman will allow herself to be clouded by her emotions. Her reasonable thought becomes completely unreasonable over the most ridiculous thing. It's a girl thing. ↗

— Lea DeLaria

#becomes #clouded #completely #emotions #girl

I don't mind if I show myself being cheap or unreasonable sometimes. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#cheap #i #mind #myself #show

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings? ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#anything #assert #behold #beings #blind

...Today the invisible hand seems confused and indecisive...Ideology and rhetoric increasingly guide policy decision, often bearing little relationship to factual reality. And the America we once knew seems divided and angry, defiantly embracing unreason. ↗

— Shawn Lawrence Otto

#science #unreason #relationship

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#around #changed #make #men #reasonable

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#gratify #insolent #patriot #refusing #starts