The Reason Quotes

To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason.

The main reason nerds are unpopular is that they have other things to think about.

A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better.

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry

Sometimes the reason we do not see the answer is that we are looking too closely at the question.

I know jazz is completely un-American. But the reason why America doesn't like it is because it's not funny. We [americans] have made jazz funny.

You know what? The obvious is obvious for a reason.

I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.

Elvis was the reason I picked up the guitar.

What's to be the reason for becoming man and wife, is it love that brings you here, or love that gives you life?

It might be said that a great unstated reason for travel is to find places that exemplify where one has been happiest. Looking for idealised versions of home-indeed, looking for the perfect memory.

I don't know if there's any formula. I'm not sure I believe in that, to be honest. I don't know if there's any rhyme or reason to music. Sometimes it hits and sometimes it doesn't, really.

The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.

I don't really have an explanation. I'm struggling myself to comprehend what has happened and find a reason for it.

Reason is afraid of defeat, But intuition enjoys challenges

When someone wants something, they must know why they are fighting. This is the only reason to seek a reward.

There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason.

The only reason I don't throw myself into your arms, kiss you and make love with you now is that I lack the courage and am afraid of loving you.

The closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomes his true reason for being.

Comparing objects like cars, houses, clothes, and defining life according to those comparisons, instead of trying to discover the real reason for being alive.

If you don't annoy your big sister for no good reason from time to time, she thinks you don't love her anymore.

I'm sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people - because the ages don't mix any more.

Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.

The reason I'm an I.B.M.-type guy today is that I really needed a laptop back in 1986, and I just couldn't wait for the Powerbook.

Congressmen are like diapers - You need to change them often, and for the same reason

I've always enjoyed the record shops...they gave me a reason to leave my house.

Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?

Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for the failure of new ventures.

We really love all sports, but we don't think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities.

The reason we have to regulate . . . church schools is that . . . children that are not trained in state-controlled schools will not fit in.

The only reason these kids keep score in these games is for the parents and coaches satisfaction. Who cares? They're 10 years old.

The reason we feel hurt and anger when things and people outside us let us down is because we believe those things and people shouldn't. Well, sorry, that's not life here on earth.

In life, we have either reasons or results

Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason.

I like having a plot, I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

There are many wrong reasons to want to be an entrepreneur. I think there's only one good reason: to change the world.

The only right reason to be an entrepreneur is to change the world.

Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a particular time of day. Something that grips my imagination for some reason.

Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.

Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them.

A reasonable fine is such as the law will judge to be so . . . but what a reasonable fine is, and who shall be the judge of it, the law has established no rule.

... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!

It is the gift of heaven and not of reason.

Everybody has their reasons.

Somebody said that Reason was dead. Reason said: No, I think not so.

Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.

A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail.

In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.

As Christians, we have an additional reason to love and serve the poor; for in them we see the face and the flesh of Christ, who made himself poor so to enrich us with his poverty.

Faith intervenese not to abolish reason's autonomy nor to reduce its scope for action, but solely to bring the human being to understand that in these events it is the God of Israel who acts.