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Letter "U" » unreasonable
«Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable»
Author: Henri Bergson
(Philosopher)
| About:
Mankind,
Reason
| Keywords:
endowed, homo, Homo sapiens, pin, sapiens, unreasonable, with reason
«It is unreasonable [for a father] to expect moral success with [his] children without submitting to the laws of morality.»
«Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.»
Author: Sandra Day O'Conner
| About:
Constitution
| Keywords:
amendment, authorize, authorized, authorizes, authorizing, core, framer, Framers, searches, statutes, The Core, unreasonable
«No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.»
«Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.»
Author: Fran Lebowitz
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
alphabet, alphabets, chickens, disappointment, discovers, educational, forbidden, leap, letters, letter of the alphabet, royal, royal blue, unreasonable
«Respondent's expectation that his garden was protected from observation is unreasonable and is not an expectation that society is prepared to honor.»
Author: Warren E. Burger
| About:
Expectation
| Keywords:
expectation, protected, respondent, unreasonable
«Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: / And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
brethren, delivered, even as, glorified, glorifies, glorifying, unreasonable
«Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
People
| Keywords:
adapt, adapting, adapts, attempt, depends, progress, reasonable, therefore, unreasonable
«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.»
«I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession»
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