The Reason Quotes

I went to college for a reason, and that was to skip the minor leagues. I spent a year in the minors and got my at-bats in, and then I felt like I was ready for the big leagues.

The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.

There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.

I do understand that going out and promoting the movie is a big responsibility, and part of the reason they give me the job in the first place.

Absolutely nothing visible to the eye provides a reason for or even evidence of those terrifying shifts which can in a matter of moments reconstitute a simple path into an extremely complicated one.

Providing the best photo sharing experience is one reason why so many people love Facebook and we knew it would be worth bringing these two companies together.

I'm always worried about my money for some reason.

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

When power replaces truth as the goal, assertion replaces reason as the path

One of the reasons the producers' credit has been so weakened in recent years, and given to people who didn't deserve it, was that people didn't understand what producers did.

Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man.

Reason refuseth its homage to a God who can be fully understood.

Opinion free brands simply will struggle to survive in the future - of that simple reason that we increasingly want to associate ourselves with opinionated and authentic brands.

We ought not to criticize, explain, or judge the Scriptures by our mere reason, but diligently, with prayer, meditate thereon, and seek their meaning.

How can a reason which hates God be called sound?

Whoever wishes to be a Christian, let him pluck out the eyes of his reason.

There is on earth among all dangers no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroit reason...Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed.

To be a Christian, you must pluck out the eye of reason.

No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I'm also pretty confident about who I am and what I'm doing and it might be because I'm still at the top too.

Faith holds on to truth and reason from what it knows to be fact.

Young people . . , God wants us to be victorious. He wants you to triumph over all of your foes. Stalwart and brave we must stand. God is at the helm. There is no reason for defeat.

It's a great affirmation of the possibility of overcoming conflict through reason and good will.

. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.

I see no reason why I should not live on indefinitely just as I have done, and on the whole I am more comfortable here than in Purgatory, a place that I imagine to be like the suburbs of London.

The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.

I have never been nervous in all my life and I have no patience with people who are. If you know what you are going to do, you have no reason to be nervous. And I knew what I was going to do.

We can always find noble reasons for what we want to do.

Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it.

Softball is the reason Washing Machines and Bleach are so popular. Don't think so? Just ask a softball Mom.

Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.

Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.

The conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason.

Unless you got a really good reason, you should be nice.

Beauty compels us; reason merely cajoles.

For some reason, people always assign high cheekbones to some ethnicity, but apparently by their regards, everybody on earth has high cheekbones. So I don't know if that matters.

Give your hero a strong simple reason that he or she has to solve the problem right now.

I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this poetry as a way of expressing my feelings, because I didn't have any other outlet.

One of the fun things for me, about acting, is trying to transform. Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor, in the first place.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.... He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.

A lot of times, as a clown, you find acting for a reason. It's a way to exercise yourself. If you're funny, you test yourself.

So for whatever reason those short lines just felt right to me, in my physical self. They were right for the movement of the poems. Some poems in the book have longer lines.

Having your back scratched is not the only reason to be married, but it is a good one, especially for those spots that are so hard to reach by yourself.

Religious truth is not false for being narrow any more than mathematical or scientific truth is false for the same reason.

Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

The number one reason conversations stall out is that you are not listening well enough.

If an unexpected temptation comes, don't blame the one through whom it came, but seek out the reason. Thus you will find correction for your soul.

You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired.

time stood still. I fell into that beloved space that writers fall into, the reason most write, as it's better than drugs or alcohol ... a high without hangover, an affair without pain.