The Reason Quotes

Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.

Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.

Creativity can never be explained by appeal to reason alone. Like the birth of a child, creativity compels us not to explanation but to wonder and awe.

The rich hire lawyers and accountants for a reason - to pass the tax bill on to you.

Prayer has comforted us in sorrow and will help strengthen us for the journey ahead.

We have every reason to assume the worst.

I believe in open government. I've always believed in open government. I don't e-mail, however. And there's a reason: I don't want you reading my personal stuff.

We're still being challenged in Iraq and the reason why is a free Iraq will be a major defeat in the cause of freedom.

Big Texas (Nolan Ryan) is here. The reason I like to keep Nolan around is he is a reminder that when we got done with the Sammy Sosa trade, there was still some talent on the Rangers.

The reason we start a war is to fight a war, win a war, thereby causing no more war!

The solution to Iraq - an Iraq that can govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself - is more than a military mission. Precisely the reason why I sent more troops into Baghdad.

I think the fundamentals of the economy are finally in the electronic economy and they are strong are we have reason for great optimism.

We face an enemy that is brutal. There is no negotiation with these people. You can't try to talk reason into these totalitarians.

The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome aspects of political life.

There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization.

Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason.

One thing I don't think that we have enough of in wine writing is the use of cause and effect. Whatever wine tastes like, whatever you're going to do with it, it is as it is for a reason.

The reason mountain climbers are tied together is to keep the sane ones from going home.

... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.

I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.

The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.

There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism.

It's funny shooting movies because you get to see clubs during daylight hours, which no one should ever see - it's not pretty; there's a reason the lighting is dim in there.

One reason is because I was not being recognized the way I thought I should be recognized, so I stopped putting so much into what I was doing 'cause I was like 'Oh they don't care about it anyway...'

The reason why I play around with the word legend is because this is my 7th CD and a lot of artists don't even make it that far. Many artists don't even pass three or four.

I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn't raising them alone.

The two fulcra of medicine are reason and observation. Observation is the clue to guide the physician in his thinking.

Life's better now. I wouldn't do it all over again, though. It's funny how life works. Maybe it was meant to happen for many reasons, because my life in many ways richer.

Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothing.

The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance.

I can think of no better reason to vote against Obama than the prospect of an administration where any criticism of the President is treated as racism.

Diplomacy has more to do with (credible) threats than with sweet reason. And threats from America are a lot more credible, nowadays.

One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low.

Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.

Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything.

You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.

When I was being photographed, I always felt very much in my own skin. That's probably one of the reasons why I enjoy being photographed.

Everything has to be done for a reason, and everything has to be done to make sense in terms of running a proper business today, and it's not just about the food.

Treating success as an option is one of the major reasons why more people don't create it for themselves-and why most people don't even get close to living up to their full potential.

The reason it's so painful when someone disappears is you have to face the fact that the person you loved had probably left you a long time before he grabbed his coat and scrammed.

I knew that drinking and doing stand-up was going to make me less of an effective comedian. And I just had a lot invested in wanting to be a really good comedian and so I stopped for that reason.

The only reason we're not in Iran now is because we're going alphabetically and George Bush can't spell.

I think the reason why 'Red Eye' is popular is because we question the common assumptions that you find elsewhere.

If man is not special, if he's not deeply different from any other thing, then there's no good reason not to treat him just like any other thing when it's convenient for us to do so.

The only reason runaway global warming seems unstoppable is that we have not yet tried to stop it.

The truth isn't a thing of fact or reason. It is simply what everyone agrees on.

I think in theater the playwright is king. Those words are unchangeable. They are the reason that everything else flows from.

People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason, in a way that animals can’t do.