The Reason Quotes

I enjoy classics, but classics are classics for a reason.

Fearlessness comes with the birth of this new understanding: The only reason life changes as it does is to reveal the secret Goodness underlying those same changes.

Each language gives you something different so that's a good enough reason for you to learn it.

It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

There is space in its philosophy for everyone which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion in the world.

'It is love and reason,' I said, 'fleeing from all this madness of war.'

We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared to abandon its terrible delights.

Make today the BEST day of your life, because there is no good reason not to.

I have to confess I can't have the holiday season without "Hard Candy Christmas". For some reason, it makes me think of the sticky ribbon candy bowl my mid-western grandma always had.

Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue.

A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

I always value people's opinions. I think a lot of people are really smart people, and when people say something, they do it for a reason.

In Life We Can Have Results or Reasons.

The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.

Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or for any reason but because I could not help it.

[I] wish that the land-tax went a little more according to situation than it does. 'Tis really ridiculous, how one has to pay five times as much as another, without any reason that ever I heard tell.

My work has always been important to me. The reason I continue to do it is because it's so much fun for me. I love my work and so that's what keeps me in the game.

The reason nobody else in my business has any impact is because they're all comatose.

I say sorry to my wife about five times a day for various reasons.

The reasons I never set out to do a talk show is they're formulaic. People come out, tell jokes and read questions. But that's not what I do, and we built the show around my skill set.

If Im honest, the reason I got into acting is not the reason Im still doing it, and if Im still doing it in ten years time, Im sure Ill find something else.

In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.

Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I'm a successful writer.

she was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to find her appealing.

You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in various shoes and experience anything.

When an employee asks why the company does things a certain way, and you can explain the logical reason, then the employee knows what she's doing is valid.

It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.

I started writing everything down.I wrote for the same reason someone lost sticks a message in a bottle. I’m here. Help. Please find me.

The cuter girls kinda went off from the older women because we're younger, and we're cuter, we've got better bodies, and for some reason that's like a huge issue with older people.

The dreamed outcome of launching a psychic attack can make you feel small and petty. I think for that reason I'm going to refrain from launching any.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge.

There are people who think contraception is immoral because the object of copulation is procreation. In a similar way there are people who think the only reason to read a book is to write a book.

The only reason a man doesn't call is that he doesn't want to.

One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with.

We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.

I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.

There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park?

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.

The mind resorts to reason for want of training.

The tech folks have seen WiFi as the way to untether. And what better reason to untether than entertainment content? So there's nobody better positioned than the in-home Wi-Fi purveyor.

Growing up, I loved Bill Cosby and Bob Newhart. They are a big reason I'm a storyteller because they are two of the best.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.

There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether they cover any core or sap-wood at all.

We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.

There are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done; as if Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.

On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy.

The intensely felt subjective image is always the reason for making a first rate picture.

When I'm acting, I've always got to make it make sense to me why I do anything. Whether it's right or wrong, I've just got to believe this is the reason why I am doing this and just go with it.

The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.