Famous quotes containing the words reasonable time, reasonable, time and/or lines:
“Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
“An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.”
—A.P. (Sir Alan Patrick)
“I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events which make the news transpirethinner than the paper on which it is printedthen these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I am so tired of taking to others
translating my life for the deaf, the blind,
the I really want to know what your life is like without giving up any of my privileges
to live it white women
the I want to live my white life with Third World womens style and keep my skin
class privileges dykes”
—Lorraine Bethel, African American lesbian feminist poet. What Chou Mean We, White Girl? Lines 49-54 (1979)