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)

    The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

    David Hume (1711–1776)

    Time was. Time was.
    White robes like moonlight

    In the sweetgum dark.
    Unbucked that one then
    and him squealing bloody Jesus
    as we cut it off.
    Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)

    Your letter is come; it came indeed twelve lines ago, but I
    could not stop to acknowledge it before, & I am glad it did not
    arrive till I had completed my first sentence, because the
    sentence had been made since yesterday, & I think forms a very
    good beginning.
    Jane Austen (1775–1817)