Reasonable

Famous quotes containing the word reasonable:

“An act of God was defined as “something which no reasonable man could have expected.””
—A.P. (Sir Alan Patrick)

“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)