Quotes of Unreasonable - somelinesforyou

“ A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable. ”

- Helitzer

“ I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously. ”

- Jeanette Winterson

“ The immoderate cannot laugh moderately. ”

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

“ Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance. ”

- Ellen Glasgow

“ The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. ”

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“ So let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity. ”

- Gerald Vann

“ A woman will allow herself to be clouded by her emotions. Her reasonable thought becomes completely unreasonable over the most ridiculous thing. It's a girl thing. ”

- Lea DeLaria

“ Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ People hate as they love, unreasonably. ”

- William Makepeace Thackeray

“ No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion. ”

- Wyndham Lewis

“ Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day? ”

- Maximilien Robespierre

“ In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing. ”

- Plutarch

“ Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification. ”

- Alice Thomas Ellis

“ First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ I think it would be a wonderful thing to acknowledge that the country's largest minority group... to have that representation on the court would be a thrill for me,... If he was to appoint someone other than an Hispanic and it was an eminently qualified person, that's the way it goes… ”

- Mel Martinez
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