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Ideally, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably, our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles. -- Joseph Pilates
A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam figures: Hey, why not us? -- Mark Steyn
I live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track. -- George Lucas
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. -- Georges Clemenceau
Golf is supposed to be fun, but I don't think anything is fun if you're not doing it reasonably well. -- Fred Couples
You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements. -- B. F. Skinner
The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained. -- Alexis Carrel
In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. -- Earl Warren
Beating cancer is personal battle. It was one of the toughest opponents I have faced so far, and I think I did reasonably well. Touch wood. -- Yuvraj Singh
I guess I'm reasonably confident in all honesty. But I definitely don't think I'm arrogant. I'm pretty down to earth, I mean I'm genuinely down to earth. -- John Key
That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support. -- Lysander Spooner
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so. -- Althea Gibson
Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There's very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I'm lucky enough that it's reasonably mild in my case. -- Stephen Fry
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. -- Miguel de Cervantes
My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time. -- Manmohan Singh
I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful. -- Ratan Tata
I'm left-handed, and it's not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. I've only owned two of them. -- Kurt Cobain
Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition. -- Thomas Clarkson
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. -- James A. Baldwin
Etiquette is all human social behavior. If you're a hermit on a mountain, you don't have to worry about etiquette; if somebody comes up the mountain, then you've got a problem. It matters because we want to live in reasonably harmonious communities. -- Judith Martin
Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way. -- David Korten
Belize suits me because I'm active and I like diving. I learnt when I was 18, in Thailand, and I have dived in Vietnam, which wasn't great, the Red Sea, which was incredible and reasonably priced, and then the Maldives, which is like being submerged in an aquarium. -- Georgina Chapman
The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers. -- Zac Goldsmith
People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today. -- Zig Ziglar
In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them. -- Noam Chomsky
It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan. -- Damian Lewis
To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied. -- Henry B. Eyring
My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride. -- Rahul Dravid
I'm a reasonably articulate individual. -- Amanda Marshall
I've always been reasonably fatalistic. -- Nigel Mansell
Overachievers don't think reasonably, sensibly, or rationally. -- John Eliot
Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on policy. -- Mark McKinnon
I am reasonably happy, providing I keep busy. -- Burt Lancaster
The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth. -- William Cobbett
You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil. -- Alice Hoffman
I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy. -- Zachary Levi
Most people are reasonable. That's why they only do reasonably well. -- Paul Arden
People like to help, providing they can do it reasonably easily -- Liz Miller
You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil. -- Alice Hoffman
Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth. -- Nicolas Chamfort
Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it. -- Russell Conwell
Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait. -- Giovanni Ruffini
My dresses are very reasonably priced, for dresses that are cut on the body. -- John Galliano
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have. -- Charles Kettering
Whatever claim you use to get attention, the advertisement should tell a story reasonably complete -- Claude C. Hopkins
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. -- Andrew Davies
Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect. -- Teller
Meryl Streep, despite not being a Prime Minister, is reasonably convincing in "?The Iron Lady.' -- Sasha Frere-Jones
Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Real limitations can be reasonably challenged and expanded, but a hobbled mind is not going anywhere. -- Bryant McGill
It's a good thing I'm a reasonably patient woman. Otherwise, I might have to kill you. -- Lora Leigh
I would love to be on 'Top Gear' as a star in a reasonably priced car. -- Sandra Bullock
Plants want to grow; they are on your side as long as you are reasonably sensible. -- Anne Wareham
Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding. -- Jonathan Swift
I think I've always been much better at responding kind of reasonably appropriately to whatever is required. -- Ian McLeod
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do. -- Richard Whately
I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility. -- Maria Monk
Looks are deceiving, Risa saysAfter all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent. -- Neal Shusterman
Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet. -- John Ralston Saul
A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably. -- Jean de la Bruyere
[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace. -- Richard P. Feynman
Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent. -- Neal Shusterman
I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one. -- Alexander McCall Smith
Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be. -- Blaise Pascal
I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least. -- Elon Musk
I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine. -- Colin Firth
I`ve passed on a number of bills. I`ve studied the Constitution myself. I am reasonably well educated. -- Dianne Feinstein
Limitations can be reasonably expanded. We are constantly challenging our limitations. But a hobbled mind is not going anywhere. -- Bryant McGill
We have to keep our eye on inflation, but so far inflation remains reasonably in check on the global stage. -- John W. Snow
My official field was Tudor-Stuart England; I also considered myself reasonably competent when it came to Renaissance and Reformation Europe. -- Lauren Willig
Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale. -- Zig Ziglar
Summer School: Never stop learnin' if you want to stop earnin'. I'm reasonably sure there G's in learning and earning. -- Kami Garcia
London used to be reasonably priced, clean, and a decent place to live. These days it's polluted and utterly unbearable -- Munir Butt
I like to think I'm generally accessible, but I give readers the benefit of the doubt of being reasonably culturally-literate. -- Alonso Duralde
Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed. -- Alexander Hamilton
I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist. -- Molly Crabapple
Exotic: meaning you're "desired." For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness. So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Decision-making power, whether it's on foreign affairs or domestic affairs, is concentrated in the White House in a reasonably small circle. -- David Brooks
Anything that prevents you from taking an action or actions that might reasonably dispel legitimate anxieties. Fear is what paralyzes you. -- Keith Olbermann
In general, drug companies are reasonably good at developing new treatments, and there's also a lot of good in the industry. -- Ben Goldacre
People often overestimate what they can reasonably achieve in a year. But they vastly underestimate what they can achieve in 5 years. -- Steve Pavlina
I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information. -- Hilary Mantel
There is nothing in anything that I have ever written that could be reasonably construed as an incitement to violence against anyone. -- Robert Spencer
The government can reasonably rely on debt ratings when it forms programs to lend money to buyers of otherwise unattractive debt instruments. -- Seth Klarman
It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it. -- Henry James
If she just wanted to come home at night to eye candy with good hair, I could probably be that reasonably well. -- Richelle Mead
Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point -- Barbara Mertz
You'd like to see your team reasonably happy, but that's not your job. Gain their respect and get them to accept their roles -- John Wooden
I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that will be distributed equally throughout the world. -- Idi Amin
You might as reasonably expect to find a living man without breath, as a true Christian without the spirit of prayer and supplication. -- George Whitefield
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If we can reduce the risk of friction likely to lead to war, this is probably all we can reasonably hope to achieve. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can. -- Vincent de Paul
I love to make a mistake. It is my only assurance that I cannot reasonably be expected to assume the responsibility of omniscience. -- Rex Stout
With body, mind, and spirit functioning perfectly as a coordinated whole, what else could reasonably be expected other than an active, alert, disciplined person? -- Joseph Pilates
The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax. -- John Roberts
Oftentimes, small business owners are unable to obtain reasonably priced financing and instead turn to higher priced forms of capital, such as credit cards. -- Melissa Bean
According to any textbook on dynamic meteorology, one may reasonably conclude that in a warmer world, extratropical storminess and weather variability will actually decrease. -- Richard Lindzen
The explosion in the number of available personal services says a great deal about changing ideas of what we can reasonably expect from whom. -- Arlie Russell Hochschild
The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free. -- John Bruton
Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion. -- Asa Gray
Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon. -- Augustus William Hare
I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive and intelligent have liked your book. -- Christopher Koch
I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black. -- E. W. Howe
One might reasonably wonder whether any amount of failed results would cause liberals to reevaluate the wisdom - and even fairness - of their proposals. -- David Limbaugh
The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go. -- Seamus Heaney
The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it. -- Chris Weitz
New York was big enough and wide enough that it allowed for reasonably eccentric people like me to thrive. It was a perfect place for me. -- Robert Benton
In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year's change in intrinsic value. -- Warren Buffett
I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I'm in the company of good friends, but I'm not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious. -- Rowan Atkinson
Technological innovation has dramatically lowered the cost of computing, making it possible for large numbers of consumers to own powerful new technologies at reasonably low prices. -- James Surowiecki
That's the mistake people make - always searching for the perfect match, when they would be just as happy if they settled for somebody reasonably good. -- Farahad Zama
"I hope, sir, that I will shoot your picture on your hundredth birthday." I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit and healthy. -- Winston Churchill
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
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. -- Theodore Roosevelt
In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection. -- Bernard Bailyn
I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of the conservative position. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.

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