The Reason Quotes

These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?

for a woman, love is its own reason. "I love you because I love you.

There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!

A lot of times I feel like people stick around in a relationship because they feel a primal need to be with that person for whatever reason.

My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do something.

In my life I've easily lost 500 pounds but for some reason they keep finding me.

You do realise modern social mores exist for a reason?" "I was hungry, allowances should be made.

Everyone has to have either this or that problem, if he can't find any problem, he loses all reason for living.

Take care of your friends. Because there will come a time when you'll be no good to anyone, and the only reason for people to talk to you will be sheer habit.

Los Angeles has interested me for a long time. I was in Texas for five years, for the same reason. I wanted to photograph there.

James Taylor and God are the reasons I play music.

I think one reason I'm drawn to expansive syntax is that arias are so often exercises in extending language as a means of intensifying feeling.

Every city and country just has a different reason for wanting to host the [Olympic] games.

I detest that saying Everything happens for a reason; its nonsense.

Have you ever considered that, just perhaps, the reason you have gotten as far as you have is because of the invisible work of anonymous Angels?

Everyone wants to be known as a great striker of the ball for some reason. Nobody wants to be called a lucky, one-putting s.o.b.

The only reason I would call the police is if someone is getting aggressed in the street and I'm behind a window.

Love has a reason There's a meaning to the world We're giving love.

Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting

I know where we today in Europe have enormous influx of... in the last decades of people from Islamic countries, that our society has changed. That it has worsened for that reason.

A pink sunset - one of the reasons I moved to the seaside in Margate.

Sometimes there are good reasons to do bad things.

There is not a single person alive who could keep a straight face and say "Oh yeah it's healthy, the reason I use drugs and alcohol and booze is because it's healthy!"

The biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

The total wall is between editorial and newsroom. And unbreachable barrier. For good reason. It doesn't mean the two sides don't talk.

Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God.

Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.

Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.

People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are.

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

I cannot find any great difference, on the basis of natural reason and equity only, between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.

There are many people who do view scientific research as alienating from religion and from God, and when so many people do, there must be some reason for it.

What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one selected race, Of all professions, and in every place.

All things except reason and order are possible with a mob.

Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

People have to have a desire within themselves to know who they are and the reason why they are in this body.

The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]

Reason and speech we onely bring.

Harken to reason or shee will bee heard.

Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]

Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.

Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.

Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.

If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of Reason. This one will delight thinkers-and outrage true believers-of all stripes.

Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.