#reasonable

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

Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country? ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#citizenship #country #entering #proof #unreasonable

There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers. ↗

— Marcia Wallace

#frivolous #get #got #life #question

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

We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#each #extravagant #house #lovely #own

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#function #keep #reasonable #vice #virtue

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#almost #assume #baby #being #certainly