Famous quotes containing the words reasonable time, reasonable, time and/or lines:
“Women should not weaken their cause by impracticable demands. Make no claim which could not be won in a reasonable time. Take one step at a time, get a good foothold in it and advance carefully.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (18151884)
“How can anyone be interested in war?that glorious pursuit of annihilation with its ceremonious bellowings and trumpetings over the mangling of human bones and muscles and organs and eyes, its inconceivable agonies which could have been prevented by a few well- chosen, reasonable words. How, why, did this unnecessary business begin? Why does anyone want to read about itthis redundant human madness which men accept as inevitable?”
—Margaret Anderson (18861973)
“Time goes, you say? Ah, no!
Alas, Time stays, we go.”
—Henry Austin Dobson (18401921)
“Who will in fairest book of Nature know
How virtue may best lodged in beauty be,
Let him but learn of love to read in thee,
Stella, those fair lines which true goodness show.
There shall he find all vices overthrow,
Not by rude force, but sweetest sovereignty
Of reason,”
—Sir Philip Sidney (15541586)