#reasonable

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

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#me #men #politics #reasonable #reasoned

There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#because #bill #bill gates #cure #gates

No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the enterprise of our people, and no reasonable man could desire to check the march of civilization. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#administration #check #civilization #control #could

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest. ↗

— Ann Radcliffe

#inconsistancy #love #suspicion #unreasonable #love

Well, did he do it?" She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- the proof -- and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#criminal-law #defense #evidence #guilt #innocence

In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact, and to insist on its production would be unreasonable and absurd. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#affairs #because #demonstrative #evidence #expect

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism. ↗

— Peter Hook

#around #based #bear #business #escape

It is also right that we continue to consult with front line workers and the public to ensure that targets are reasonable and achievable, that measurement regimes are proportionate and that the targets take full account of the other reforms that are under way. ↗

— John Hutton

#also #consult #continue #ensure #front

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