Being Unreasonable Quotes

#1. While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses.

Eli Broad

#2. Many of the Nazis were convicted after the war, but they were not convicted for being 'unreasonable'. They were convicted for being gruesome murderers.

Jostein Gaarder

#3. As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified.

Cate Blanchett

#4. He has that look, like I am being unreasonable, like he is so sure I am being unreasonable that I wonder if I am.

Gillian Flynn

#5. The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.

Oscar Wilde

#6. I'm a veteran. If I go into the V.A. hospital in Tennessee, I want to know that the procedures they're doing to me are being done properly. That is not unreasonable.

Phil Roe

#7. Society is completely unreasonable. People want everything and want to pay for nothing. They panic if they think about their taxes being raised, but if their garbage collection is a day late they scream and yell.

Michael Schur

#8. If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right.

Jeff Bezos

#9. In our course through life we shall meet the people who are coming to meet us, from many strange places and by many strange roads,' was the composed reply; 'and what it is set to us to do to them, and what it is set to them to do to us, will all be done.

Charles Dickens

#10. An unreasonable amount of paperwork is required these days just to be a human being.

Fredrik Backman

#11. Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

Edith Wharton

#12. Every artist wants some sort of feedback, because you make this music and you hope people love it and you want to hear if they love it and what they love about it, what their favorite song is, what they think the next single should be. I like to hear those things.

John Legend

#13. Grappling with fate is like meeting an expert wrestler: to escape, you have to accept the fall when you are thrown. The only thing that counts is whether you get back up.

Ming-Dao Deng

#14. You say 'go away', I hear 'wreak havoc by my side.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#15. It is unreasonable to think we can earn rewards without being willing to pay their true price. It is always our choice whether or not we wish to pay the price for life's rewards.

Epictetus

#16. The treasured vistas of our solo journeys are not always about the landscape.

Gina Greenlee

#17. Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.

Victor Hugo

#18. I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!

Steve Wozniak

#19. In her more lucid moments, she knew that half her life had been sacrificed to safeguard her secret heart, to appease that unreasonable, mortal dread she suffered of being suddenly revealed to others in a nakedness of spirit that terrified her more than the concept of God's own retribution itself.

Raymond Kennedy

#20. The partnership over the 28 years we had the company afforded him the opportunity to experiment and live his life as an artist and a label honcho and do what he wanted to do. It afforded me the same opportunity.

Jerry Moss

#21. He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

Marcus Aurelius

#22. to insist on everything's being reasonable, in a world that wasn't, was, in itself, unreasonable.

Neal Stephenson

#23. It would be unreasonable to give you credit for being incredibly beautiful.

Graeme Simsion

#24. It is when we insist most firmly on everyone else being "reasonable" that we become ourselves, unreasonable.

Thomas Merton

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

Harvey Pekar

#26. - But, if life is just that, just being reasonable, then there is nothing in it - nothing worthwhile. So, the yearning that we have to keep dead things living - or to make unreasonable things reasonable. That is why a person should live.

Jesse Ball

#27. I cope with it the best way I know - by being completely unreasonable and trying to force everything else in the world to obey me and do all the nonsensical things I want.

Allie Brosh