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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error. -- Moliere
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I am tough. Sometimes I'm unreasonable. I have to catch myself every once in a while. -- George Steinbrenner
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable. -- Henri Bergson
It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures. -- Potter Stewart
Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men. -- Edwin Louis Cole
A woman will allow herself to be clouded by her emotions. Her reasonable thought becomes completely unreasonable over the most ridiculous thing. It's a girl thing. -- Lea DeLaria
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health? -- Petrarch
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
The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion. -- Potter Stewart
It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics. -- Stephen Hawking
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. -- Richard Feynman
All progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
All progress depends upon the unreasonable person. -- George Bernard Shaw
But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable. -- Leo Tolstoy
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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
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
In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing. -- Plutarch
Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere. -- Linda Lingle
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
In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future. -- Alan Dundes
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
People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.... Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.... What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. .. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway. -- Mother Teresa
Unreasonable is very relative. -- Lakshmi Pratury
Unreasonable," "unrealistic," and "impractical" are all words used to marginalize a person or idea that fails to conform with conventionally expected standards. -- Chris Guillebeau
There's this fabulous innovation ship called Unreasonable at Sea, where I'm a mentor. One of the companies there was called Protei, and they're an open hardware ocean exploration and monitoring idea. -- Megan Smith
I don't mind if I show myself being cheap or unreasonable sometimes. -- Harvey Pekar
Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country? -- Gwen Ifill
A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it. -- Kate Chopin
It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue. -- Charles Babbage
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
In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact, and to insist on its production would be unreasonable and absurd. -- Simon Greenleaf
When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms. -- Al Franken
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I don't think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that's unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you're not healthy. -- Anthony Bourdain
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
Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of positive attributes, a meeting of mind, body and soul that is all the more powerful as it is not weighed down with neediness and unreasonable expectation. -- Mariella Frostrup
Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith. -- Sam Harris
A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct. -- Emile Durkheim
Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.' -- Saint Basil
what is unreasonable is irrefutable. -- Amelia Barr
Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm. -- Ann Radcliffe
Big Dreams start with small unreasonable acts -- Adam Braun
All progress is due to the unreasonable person. -- George Bernard Shaw
I've been called 'hardheaded,' 'obstinate,' 'unreasonable,' etc. -- Benigno Aquino III
Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable. -- Asger Jorn
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It is not unreasonable to look upon Concorde as a miracle. -- Brian Trubshaw
Oh! what a silly Thing is Woman! How vain, how unreasonable! -- Jane Austen
I'm a reasonable guy, but I've just experienced some very unreasonable things... -- Kurt Russell
Disappointment doesn't stem from expectations. It stems from unrealistic or unreasonable expectations. -- Sue Fitzmaurice
Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature. -- Lisa Kleypas
People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway. -- Mother Teresa
How can you call it unreasonable when all I want is my own way? -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain. -- Samuel Johnson
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The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve. -- Eugene Wigner
Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity. -- Renzo Piano
Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment. -- Jeremy Collier
Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it. -- Lord Byron
Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before. -- Eli Broad
Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind. -- Jerry Bridges
It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order. -- Hans Arp
It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot. -- Robert Walpole
To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported. -- Epictetus
I don't believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they've never heard before. That's just unreasonable. -- Aimee Mann
Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people. -- George Bernard Shaw
It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark, but $120 for an earthquake emergency kit just seems unreasonable. -- Howard Ruff
That I ever think for one minute that I should ever feel lonely is obscene and unreasonable. -- Andrew W.K.
Love and truth are two tools you can use to examine how reasonable or unreasonable your sentiments are -- Constance Chuks Friday
It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse. -- Richard Steele
What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life? -- Jules Verne
A proof is that which convinces a reasonable man; a rigorous proof is that which convinces an unreasonable man. -- Mark Kac
My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power. -- Junot Diaz
I will no longer argue with the senseless and unreasonable; for they are void of reason and common sense. -- Suzy Kassem
It's important for the children's point of view. That they have parents who are equally unreasonable, but in different ways. -- Guy Jenkin
It is unreasonable [for a father] to expect moral success with [his] children without submitting to the laws of morality. -- Larry Christenson
In general, organizations are afraid to fire customers, no matter how unreasonable. This is a mistake. It's good for you. -- Seth Godin
To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable. -- Jeff Bezos
It's unreasonable to expect medical doctors and pharmaceutical companies to tell you how to avoid their services by trying the alternatives. -- Andrew Saul
We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted. -- Philip Greenspun
Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent. -- Stephen Jay Gould
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Sometimes sorrow, sometimes joy. But beneath it all remember the innate perfection of your life unfolding. That is the secret of unreasonable happiness. -- Dan Millman
Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day? -- Maximilien Robespierre
It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong. -- Michel de Montaigne
No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion. -- Wyndham Lewis
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
Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Obama's respect for the Constitution does not apply to protections against unreasonable search and seizure, as Obama's deeply intrusive National Security Agency programs prove. -- Ben Shapiro
Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved. -- Marvin J. Ashton
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
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
Research â?? and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation â?? is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational. -- Eli Broad
Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does. -- David Chalmers
When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows -- David Viscott
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter. -- Bernard Malamud
Hip to the fact that well-behaved women rarely make history, Diane [Wilson] has already inspired a new movement of totally uncontrollable, irresistible and unreasonable women! -- Medea Benjamin
That part of you that feels bad when you do wrong is the reasonable part of you that was subdued by the unreasonable and irrational -- Constance Chuks Friday
I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession. -- Samuel Johnson
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
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
Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest. -- Ann Radcliffe
It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery. -- Jonathan Mayhew
It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery -- Jonathan Mayhew
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
The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained. -- George Bernard Shaw
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
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
The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth. -- Gertrude Stein
A reasonable man adjusts himself to the world. An unreasonable man expects the world to adjust itself to him. Therefore all progress is made by unreasonable people. -- Confucius
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
The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men. -- George Bernard Shaw
I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism. -- Peter Hook
It is very unreasonable of people to expect one should be at home, because one is in the house. Of all privileges, that of invisibility is the most valuable. -- Elizabeth Montagu

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