The Reason Quotes
When a film is successful, you don't need to shout about it from the rooftops. I don't believe in going into overdrive. There's no desperation to be acknowledged as the reason for a film's success.
That was all he said, except for "Aaaeerrgghhh." Which is not really a word. But the reason that he screamed "Aaaeerrgghhh" was that Franco had bitten him savegly on the wrist.
Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.
I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively.
There is no reason to believe that the nature of the violent minorities is now greatly different from what it was in the past. What has changed is the will and ability of the majority to react.
Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.
I've got a reason for living. When I wake up, there are individuals who are counting on me to be my best and live my maximum life.
Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed.
For some reason, I write about crash-landed spaceships quite a lot and my wife is sick of hearing of hearing my ideas for new tales about them.
I've been really lucky. People have been nice to me on the internet. That's the reason why I couldn't figure out what was wrong with me.
For some unexplained reason, it's always the other end of the table that's wild and raucous, with screaming laughter and a fella who plays 'Holiday for Strings' on water glasses.
Michelle is 14. Give her a couple of years to get stronger. I mean, she can play on this tour. If she keeps working, keeps doing the right things, there's no reason why she shouldn't be out here.
I'm more than a songwriter. I'm a creative person. Some people you just always see. I won't allow you to see me unless it makes sense. There's a reason to see me.
The reason that you call it 'grief' is because you've been programmed to believe that you should feel bad about death.
For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a pen and wrote a story had nothing pragmatic in it.
The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.
If this is airing in the future and no one knows who Karl Rove is - he's the reason you all live underground.
I forget, is freedom of speech when it's legal to say what you want or is it when it has no consequences for some reason?
If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.
I adore having people over to my home. My number one reason I love that is because I love to see people at ease with each other.
I think what all of us have in common is that we've been taught and trained and programmed to focus on fixing and mutilating ourselves. That's a core reason why women do not have power in the world.
I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.
The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep track of people in the camps, ecological disasters.
Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.
The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.
I have never bought myself a computer or a phone, but guys in my life have bought them for me, for whatever reason. So now I have them.
There is no reason why good books should be lowered or lessened being rewritten to meet the demands of people who are not ready or interested enough to make the effort to read.
Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.
That is one of the reasons I write: to feel the Presence of God and know He is speaking to me in a very personal way, instructing me, correcting me, redirecting me.
The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many, if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be crowned the monarch of a little world? command thyself.
Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason.
I know that sometimes you have to reason with yourself and say, "This is just TV" or "This is just a movie," but I think also as an actor it's your job to find it so very important.
The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.
Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.
Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it.
We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us.
The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.
There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
The reason I started to do comics for kids, the real reason is because it worked for me.
The only reason I don't kill him," he remember the woman saying, her voice sounding like the scrape of iron against iron, a corrosion of vocal cords, "is because he's not important enough.
