Reasonable

Famous quotes containing the word reasonable:

“The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men’s pursuits and professions to-day.”
—William Bolitho (1890–1930)

“... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

“We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.”
—Frank Moore Colby (1865–1925)