The Reason Quotes

I prefer to subscribe to that whole, “everything happens for a reason” theory, mostly because the alternative is too disturbing to think about.

The only place I really get recognized is at Ralphs. Whenever I'm in L.A., I go to Ralphs, and for some reason, everyone there recognizes me.

Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore.

The reason you can never go home again isn't necessarily that places change, but people do. So nothing ever looks the same.

people do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons.

If I had not kissed anyone, or danced with anyone, or had a reason to cry, the music made me feel as if I had gone through all that anyway.

I studied philosophy and ended on sociology. For some reason, all the advanced courses in philosophy were offered 4:30 to 6:30, so I could never go because of football, so I had to switch.

Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it.

Michael Flynn is a very controversial figure for a variety of reasons.

People cheat when they are afraid. When there is no cost to being wrong or confessing ignorance, there is no reason to cheat or fake comprehension.

We want to win it all. The only reason we play this game is to win championships.

There's no reason to play in the NBA if you don't believe you can win it all.

The only reason you should move to a new job is if you are not getting the opportunity to do what you want to do and what you believe you can do.

So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right.

I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books.

Children give life a reason to be - they make life.

I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.

Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us.

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

We judge people and initiatives by their results, and we expect events to happen for good, understandable reason. But our clear visions of inevitability are often only illusions.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

The reason I've been able to maintain my position of chairman of CBS in addition to all the Viacom stuff is my team.

I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes your mind off that.

Reason was for suckers and Presbyterians.

I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.

I part-own a bookshop for some strange coincidence of reasons, and it is one of the best things I part-own in my life, or own in my life. I do not know, it just feels great.

I guess that's one of the reasons that you do it - work all the time - because it's sort of a high to find something that really works.

People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong.

When I say, 'We're a team,' the reason why I point that out is because at 'All My Children,' that's the mindset. They're a team. And I've said this to other people: They're like a united front.

So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.

It is only the strong who are strengthened by suffering; the weak are made weaker.

Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader

Everybody in the world has a different reason for wishing they could say things that most people know not to say.

Sometimes I'm not nice for a reason. It's a way to find out what someone's made of.

Hardy's either done the wrong thing for the wrong reason . . . " Another big swallow. "Or the wrong thing for the right reason.

Most of the time when couples argue, it’s not really about the thing they’re fighting about; there’s a deeper reason why they’re arguing.

The smarter you are, the more reasons you have to be miserable.

ISABEL: Sorry I missed my session Monday. DR. RUSH: Would you like to tell me why? ISABEL: I was depressed. DR. RUSH: That's a good reason to come to therapy.

You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia.

I believe that God has a specific plan and reason He created each one of us.

Families homeschool for different reasons, in unique situations, using a variety of methods.

Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.

But I don't think there's any reason to get married again, especially after what I've been through.

People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.

Second sight is redundant to reason anyway.

[Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!" [Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.