Quotes About Unreasonable

#1. I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.

Tanith Lee

#2.
'There is no completeness; nothing endures, nothing lives; there is only change, unreasoning unreasonable; only birth and death repeating the same story each time, yet different; why?' The voice laughed
'Why you know already; look in your hands.

Vikram Chandra

#3. What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?

Jules Verne

#4. It is unreasonable to expect all children to develop correctly in unnatural man-made electromagnetic radiation fields.

Steven Magee

#5. Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Oscar Wilde

#6. Unreasonable is very relative.

Lakshmi Pratury

#7. This was an age of utopianism. Political leaders had utopian visions, and so did many citizens, especially the younger generation. The spirit is hard to capture in an age of skepticism, since utopianism, like revolution, is so unreasonable.

Sheila Fitzpatrick

#8. To follow the path that others have laid before you is a reasonable course of action; therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men.

Steve Jobs

#9. People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.

Mother Teresa

#10. The object of the new school is to teach reasonable doubt. Not the unreasonable doubt of the wild-eyed heckler, but the evidence-based doubt of the questioning scientist and the reason-based doubt of the skilled debater.

Seth Godin

#11. Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it. Well, I'm Bob and I'm an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.

Bob Geldof

#12. All but a few of the organizations do not specifically promise to deliver superior investment performance although it is perhaps not unreasonable for the public to draw such an inference from their advertised emphasis on professional management.

Warren Buffett

#13. It is one of the things she has come to love about America, the abundance of unreasonable hope.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#14. A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.

Kate Chopin

#15. 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

#16. unreasonable.' She felt like saying it was barking mad but restrained herself. 'Aahh, not quite ready yet. Not quite evolved enough. But you're getting there, Judith. You have taken the first tentative steps. The fact that you came to me proves that. You'll be back.' Sheeva jumped up from the

Patricia Scanlan

#17. The Constitution has a good share of deliberately open-ended guarantees, like rights to due process of law, equal protection of the law, and freedom from unreasonable searches.

David Souter

#18. If it turns out that President Barack Obama can make a deal with the most intransigent, hard-line, unreasonable, totalitarian mullahs in the world but not with Republicans? Maybe he's not the problem.

Jon Stewart

#19. Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable.

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. In my school, no consideration is given to anything unreasonable; the heart of the matter is to use the power of the knowledge of martial arts to gain victory any way you can.

Miyamoto Musashi

#21. Like King Midas, I am left with nothing
but this unreasonable hope
that, somehow, my strange life
and my lost family
will return
to normal.

Margarita Engle

#22. Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

Renzo Piano

#23. 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

#24. I knew I had an unreasonable attachment to her, and an overblown protective instinct for reasons we'd already discussed.

Juliette Jones

#25. Wasn't it odd that she didn't know who she was? And wasn't it unreasonable that she hadn't been allowed to have any say in what she would look like?

Jostein Gaarder

#26. The main thing I've noticed, however, is how unreasonable, self-absorbed and permanently outraged caffeine has made me.

Caitlin Moran

#27. Cute-and-furry was always an easier sell than carapaced-and-multilegged, for some obscure reason. Grownups, so unreasonable ...

Lois McMaster Bujold

#28. Explosive emotional reaction out of all proportion to the occasion. Why? Why this unreasonable anger at the sight of others who are happy or content, this growing contempt for people and the desire to hurt them?

Truman Capote

#29. I'm a reasonable guy, but I've just experienced some very unreasonable things ...

Kurt Russell

#30. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

Leo Tolstoy

#31. A lot of people just think that that's unreasonable or preposterous. But you know, if everybody chose to do it God's way, the world would be a lot better off.

Jase Robertson

#32. It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

Richard Steele

#33. Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.

Jeremy Collier

#34. The world is filled with unreasonable hate. What's wrong with unreasonable love?

Mary Doria Russell

#35. When documents were analog, they were protected by government laws against unreasonable search and seizure. When they live in the cloud ... the ground is shifting.

John Battelle

#36. I will no longer argue with the senseless and unreasonable; for they are void of reason and common sense.

Suzy Kassem

#37. 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

#38. Is this a game? We just blurt out whatever word comes next to mind? In that case mine's 'genuphobia'. It means an unreasonable fear of knees."
"What's the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?" inqired Jessamine.

Cassandra Clare

#39. Guys like Larry Bird
he played so hard, he wants everybody else to play hard. That's not unreasonable. Any coach would want that and demand that.

Larry Bird

#40. Syn opened a door to their right. "Sumi? Get in here and let Hauk know that you're okay. I can't do anything with this unreasonable, surly bastard."
"He's not unreasonable. He's just fierce.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#41. You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two hundred years.

Bertrand Russell

#42. Unreasonable force is illegal. The force used has to be reasonable under the circumstances to protect the police officers and the public

Kenneth Eade

#43. Love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing. It's unreasonable, of course. Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure as love, except maybe writing a story. And nothing fails as often, except writing stories. And like a story, love must be troubled to be interesting.

John Dufresne

#44. The Fourth Amendment is quite clear on the notion that search and seizure must not be unreasonable. It is difficult to think of something more unreasonable than searching the private phone records and digital information of citizens who are suspected of nothing.

Ben Shapiro

#45. Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.

Eli Broad

#46. 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

#47. We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them.

Albert Camus

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

George Steinbrenner

#49. He is an honorable, obstinate, truthful, high-spirited, intensely prejudiced, perfectly unreasonable man.

Charles Dickens

#50. It's unreasonable to expect medical doctors and pharmaceutical companies to tell you how to avoid their services by trying the alternatives.

Andrew Saul

#51. It seemed altogether unfair and unreasonable that the sky should be so hard.

Arthur C. Clarke

#52. Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don't demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement. As you let the Lord help you through that, He will make the difference.

Russell M. Nelson

#53. I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.

James Thurber

#54. I think it's unreasonable to expect kids at 17 to know what they want to do with the rest of their lives. And actually, I guess I had a desire to be an artist, and I did enroll in art school out of high school.

Jonathan LaPaglia

#55. Symptoms: an unreasonable belief that everyone around him was crazy, a homicidal impulse to machine-gun strangers, retrospective falsification, an unfounded suspicion that people hated him and were conspiring to kill him.

Joseph Heller

#56. ... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified ... Religion or crime, every human endeavor in fact, finally obeys this unreasonable desire and claims to give life a form it does not have.

Albert Camus

#57. Religious authority has often, doubtless, been oppressive or unreasonable; just as every legal system (and especially our present one) has been callous and full of a cruel apathy.

G.K. Chesterton

#58. Bosch always thought that if you started with the assumption that murder is an unreasonable action, then how could there ever be a fully

Michael Connelly

#59. It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

Adam Smith

#60. It could be argued that death is inherently absurd, and that grinning is not necessarily an inappropriate response. I mean absurd in the sense of ridiculous, unreasonable. One second a person is there, the next they're not.

Alison Bechdel

#61. Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?

Gwen Ifill

#62. Volyova did not like planets at the best of times, and gas giants struck her as an unreasonable affront to human scale and frailty. In that respect, they were almost as bad as stars.

Alastair Reynolds

#63. Drug companies should not be allowed to reap excessive profits or spend unreasonable amounts on marketing if they want to receive support that is designed to encourage life- saving and health-improving treatments.

Hillary Clinton

#64. You are a full of beautiful madness, an unreasonable reason, but you make sense in all things senseless.

S.w.collins

#65. The erosion of privacy rights under the Fourth Amendment, written to protect us against unreasonable search and seizure, began in earnest under President George W. Bush.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#66. Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.

Plutarch

#67. Single parents in particular may have trouble maintaining themselves as authority figures because of underlying guilt; they feel acontinuing sense that they have deprived their kids of the second parent, and so they tend to give in to the children's requests, even when unreasonable.

Margaret Kennedy

#68. Live. Love. Smile. Hug. Laugh. Dream. Do. Create. Have fun. Be intense. Be audacious. Be unreasonable. Act impeccably. Breathe. Be you. Be different.

Brian Johnson

#69. Socrates talks to an old duffer about what old age is like. The old duffer says in effect (I can't put my hands on the book just now) that he feels as though he'd been freed from a cruel and unreasonable master.

Kurt Vonnegut

#70. Perhaps I didn't voice my unhappiness soon enough; rather, I spent more time feeling like a disappointment and scrambling to patch our cracks than I did considering whether he required an unreasonable level of tending.

Padma Lakshmi

#71. I know, Ezra, that I tend to be a bit impulsive at times, but it all seems so reasonable at the time I do these things, and so unreasonable when everyone looks back at what happened and what I did

L.A. Meyer

#72. Whereas we can say something sensible and polite to any stranger, it is only in the presence of the lover we wholeheartedly believe in that can we date to be extravagantly and boundlessly unreasonable.

Alain De Botton

#73. The naked pinch hitter takes only one thing to the plate: his raw, and somewhat irrational, confidence in himself. That this confidence is so unreasonable adds to its dignity.

Thomas Boswell

#74. If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.

Isaac Asimov

#75. It does not seem to me that the steps which would be needed to make Britain - and others - more comfortable in their relationship in the European Union are inherently so outlandish or unreasonable.

David Cameron

#76. Yes," he said, "in one sense, of course it is
utterly unreasonable.

Robert Hugh Benson

#77. What is unreasonable is irrefutable.

Amelia Barr

#78. I don't believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they've never heard before. That's just unreasonable.

Aimee Mann

#79. Unreasonable," "unrealistic," and "impractical" are all words used to marginalize a person or idea that fails to conform with conventionally expected standards.

Chris Guillebeau

#80. The great stillness in these landscapes that once made me restless seeps into me day by day, and with it the unreasonable feeling that I have found what I was searching for without ever having discovered what it was.

Peter Matthiessen

#81. Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

Nicholas Kristof

#82. So we invent reasons for the unreasonable. We are rationalists of the irrational. It

Joyce Carol Oates

#83. Deciding she couldn't really be bothered searching for the illusive closures, she was sitting quietly in bed when he returned.
He halted for a second. "I'm surprised to find that you obeyed an order."
"I'm not unreasonable ... so long as the order is reasonable.

Nalini Singh

#84. Like all vain men, he had moments of unreasonable confidence.

Warren Eyster

#85. 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

#86. [On the ancient Venus figurines:] If the central religious figure was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a cross, it would not be unreasonable to infer that life and the love of life - rather than death and the fear of death - were dominant in society as well as art.

Riane Eisler

#87. It is surely unreasonable to credit that only one small star in the immensity of the universe is capable of developing and supporting intelligent life. But we shall not get to them and they will not come to us.

P.D. James

#88. I've always mistrusted that sort o' learning as leaves folks foolish and unreasonable about business.

George Eliot

#89. Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no authentic Tantra without profound commitment, discipline, courage, and a sense of wild, foolhardy, fearless abandon.

Chogyam Trungpa

#90. [Jamie] shook his head, looking stunned. I canna tell whether ye mean to compliment my virility, Sassenach, or insult my morals, but I dinna care much for either suggestion. Murtagh told me women were unreasonable, but Jesus God!

Diana Gabaldon

#91. To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

Mary Astell

#92. 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

#93. Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.

Samuel Johnson

#94. Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable.

Asger Jorn

#95. If I were a blind man and were told by you that you possess a faculty called sight, I should be unreasonable if I railed at you as a conceited enthusiast.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#96. I can get very depressed by a review that is unfair, unreasonable, and totally destructive ...

John O'Hara

#97. When escape was impractical and inaction unreasonable, attack was always preferable.

Tom Wood

#98. Given that there is every indication I'll be checking the single box on all official forms from now until I'm dead, hopefully at the ripe old age of 98 like Grandma Sanders, an unreasonable number of cats seems to be the next logical step in my life.

Lindsey Stuffel

#99. No matter how hard I fought it, no matter how unreasonable or out of control it felt, I knew that Jonathan Hayes owned me, heart and soul.

Kathryn Perez

#100. I cannot understand the motivation of a bully, is what it is; this is the one thing that makes me unreasonable. I

Patrick DeWitt