Reasonable Time Lines

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 (1694–1773)

    Well, I never would have believed that grown up men could behave like spiteful little schoolboys. Have I said something to annoy you? Then I forget, anything reasonable annoys you.
    Emeric Pressburger (1902–1988)

    It was a time of madness, the sort of mad-hysteria that always presages war. There seems to be nothing left but war—when any population in any sort of a nation gets violently angry, civilization falls down and religion forsakes its hold on the consciences of human kind in such times of public madness.
    Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835–1930)

    I struck the board, and cried, “No more.
    I will abroad.”
    What? Shall I ever sigh and pine?
    My lines and life are free; free as the road,
    Loose as the wind, as large as store.
    Shall I be still in suit?
    George Herbert (1593–1633)