The Reason Quotes

I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.

love is a deeper season than reason; my sweet one

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.

The only reason I did Showtime was Robert De Niro. I definitely consider him to be in the top 5 all time actors.

No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.

I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.

There was always a real reason for everything - why spoons tarnished, and jam furred, and people declined into God, or drink, or card games.

Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.

Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons.

What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.

I did a lot of talking - not as much background talking as a lot of people because I've never been someone who is too afraid of saying what I feel. I just don't see any reason to.

[The monks'] minds were inaccessible to reason or mercy . . .

[9/11] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it.

I've talked to a lot of pretty good lawyers around the world. I'm non-extraditable. That's the real reason the US government was pissed off, even when I was initially in Hong Kong.

Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement should be held to.

I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.

Sweet instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.

I sometimes feel tired. But there are so many reasons for being tired.

I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced to die for one reason, for being Jewish, that's all.

You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.

If we want to know history, I would think there would be every reason to.

Go over to Greece with the Iliad and Odyssey. These have elements of history, and they have non-historical elements. It's very difficult to pull them apart. And I think there's not much reason to.

I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.

The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality.

I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.

On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do.

Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a doubting soul suddenly born into the kingdom of reason and free thought.

The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.

You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.

If you lose your reason, you lose it into the hands of God....It's the only place where anything is safe. And when you're dead it's only what's there you'll have. Nothing else.

I get cast a lot of times in movies with nice people, for some reason, because I have a nice face or something. I mean, it's lucky I'm nice. Usually nice people in movies can be really boring.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.

The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhart, by Carol Burnett, by Lucille Ball.

For some reason, we can't just enjoy somebody else's success. Somehow, that's going to affect us. If they have more, then I have less - and I don't know why.

A Problem Is really just a solution in need of a reason to exist.

"Tiger is a natural kind" and "Tiger is a historical particular" are incompatible with each other, and evolutionary biology provides a reason for favoring the latter over the former.

Deism is logically compatible with evolutionary theory for the simple reason that the theory says nothing about the origin of the universe or of the laws of nature.

To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.

the reason for anger is always fear.

I don't think very highly of Henrik Fisker. [...H]e thinks the reason we don't have electric cars is for lack of styling

One big reason I do what I do is there's no two days alike. It's not work for me. It's my life. My passion.

Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be producing every minute of every day.

He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.

Whats not to love is hardly a reason to love. And the catch of your life is not the same thing as the love of your life. Be careful of that subtle but rather crucial distinction.

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.

The truth is I have had, for whatever reason, several movie-star boyfriends.