The Reason Quotes

The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts.

Do you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward? That's not morality, that's just sucking up.

Stop seeing the obstacles you face as reasons why you can't do something. See them as a reason why you can. And celebrate your accomplishments on a daily basis.

I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.

Why you need a reason for everything? Reason is something people say to make sense of things that don't make sense.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to love and be loved and through this love become instruments of peace in the world.

But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err.

The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.

The reason there are so many opinions is that no one knows the Truth.

You may reason that we have [brains] to perceive the world or to think, and that's completely wrong.

I'm one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons.

The reason I drink is because when I'm sober I think I'm Eddie Fisher.

It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.

Israel has gone mad. It's attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that they have criticised - and with reason - the Holocaust . But this is a new Holocaust.

Since childhood, I have been painting, for no special reason, numerous dots and nets, drawing from the hallucinations that seem to appear endlessly. I can't explain why if you ask me.

You don't need a reason to be nice to someone.

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.

We learn from here the humility of the Holy One, Blessed is He. Since man is in the likeness of the angels, and they would be jealous of him, for this reason, He consulted them.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.

I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.

Now Jesus, he don't like killing, no matter what the reason is for, and your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore.

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other.

Forget about the reasons why you can't in life and start to try

We are going to win and the industrial West is going to lose out; there's not much you can do about it because the reasons for your failure are within yourselves.

The reason I don't want anyone to control me is not because I want to be in control. I don't want anyone to control me because I don't want anyone to control anyone.

For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live.

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.

We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.

Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.

Maybe a reason why all the doors are closed So you can open one that leads you to the perfect road.

While reason is still tracking down the secret, you end your quest on the open field of love.

I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason Bringing something we must learn And we are led to those who help us most to grow If we let them and we help them in return.

Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.

When war comes, reason is regarded as treason.

When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.

The reason that people do not have a rich, beautiful faith is that their spirit is denied the privilege of communion and fellowship with the Father.

It has been said that the only reason for leaving England is to give yourself the pleasure of coming back to it.

Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things.

... a large portion of those who demand woman suffrage are persons who have not been trained to reason, and are chiefly guided by their generous sensibilities.

The only reason to give a speech is to change the world.

A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge.

The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.