The Reason Quotes

Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way.

And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it.

I was trying to find a reason for having had to escape from the place that was my home. To convince myself of my choices, I had to make it a place that everyone should want to escape from.

Today I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of Providence.

I really like the P!nk song with the guy from fun., 'Just Give Me a Reason.'

The eye strays not while under the guidance of reason.

If you try to follow everyone else's mold, you'll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.

I vowed to never, ever talk or reason like an adult.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.

The reason why people don't get called back to sequels is because they did badly in the original [movie].

The reason I've been able to be so financially successful is my focus has never, ever for one minute been money.

The reason I so rarely break promises to other people? It breaks trust. Without trust, there's no relationship.

The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

A man seems never to know what anything means till he has lost it; and this I suppose is the reason why losses--vanishing away of things--are among the teachings of this world of shadows.

There is another reason journalists like to drink and eat together: they simply cannot think of better company.

The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.

Paul welcomed hearbreak, disillusionment and tribulation for only one reason - - these things kept him immovable in his devotion to the gospel of God.

It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us “go.

The love of country is more powerful than reason itself.

What is reason now was passion heretofore.

What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.

Reason and right give the quickest despatch.

There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.

I am quite sure that a good number of "cures" of psychotics consist in the fact that the patient has decided, for one reason or other, once more to play at being sane.

In the silence that is his chosen medium of communication and telling others about it in words. Is there no way not to be the sport of reason?

My natural orientation has never been among a community of writers, really. For some reason my social world has always been in the art world.

They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!

Jessica Alba is one of my favorites. ... I love her so much. I know she's married now, but I would love to take her out to dinner one day, or maybe even lunch. I love that girl for some reason.

The only reason I started using samples was because people talked about me not sounding like Kanye or The Heatmakers.

Albums aren't even selling anymore and there's a reason for that. Record companies are just signing single and ring tone deals and it doesn't seem like they're focusing on albums.

Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal. Oneman owns his clothes, and another owns a country.

The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.

There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

If your incentives are set up wrong - if for some reason you reward people for behavior that's actually bad for your customers or your organization - then you're going to encourage that behavior.

I think there's a racial outcome to a lot of what goes in America, but I don't think race is always the reason.

My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons.

God has to let you be there, and then you just have to have good fortune for whatever reason. I'm enjoying every moment of my life. We are so fortunate just to be alive.

Brick walls are there for reason. And once you get over them-- even if someone has practically had to throw you over-- it can be helpful to others to tell them how you did it.

I think it's good to leave people with the memory of that being a great character. And if we have a reason to bring him back, we'll bring him back.

I have people come onstage and ask me questions and I get to meet them. That's one of the reasons I like it. When you're performing, when you're doing your movies, they're not there with you.

The Kantian philosophy is no more than at best a half-secularized version of such a theocratic ethics, with "Reason" in the place of God. This does not amount to much more than a change of names.

I suppose the reason why I like acting is because I'm curious about human nature, and the less I know about a character on the page, instinctively, in a way, the better.