The Reason Quotes

What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason

There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.

Science is not a vast encyclopedia, it is a thin flame of reason burning across ample reservoirs of ignorance.

Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.

Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull.

So take the time to think. Discover your real reason for being here and then have the courage to act on it.

nd the reason is is if you put a backdoor in, hackers can presumably get a hold of that backdoor as well and break it open. So you make systems less secure for everyone if you do that.

Money was invented for a reason. We've seen people try to use beans, etc. and it doesn't work.

When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.

It has been said that the reason we establish relationships is to assure ourselves of a witness to our lives.

There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.

It's just one of those things. Everybody wants to do it, but it's really difficult. People had to wait for "Indy 4" for a decade, and the reason is because of the people involved.

Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged.

I don't know anyone who is not using drugs for the reason that they're illegal.

I always try to get as personal as I can with the characters that I play, which is a reason why I don't play a lot of characters.

I like to talk while I'm on stage. It makes the show more personal. With that said, it's got to stay within reason or it's annoying.

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

If I thought there was some reason to be concerned about them, I wouldn't be sleeping in this house tonight. (When asked about continued presence of Soviet nuclear submarines along US coastlines)

I've always believed that we were, each of us, put here for a reason, that there is a plan, somehow a divine plan for all of us. I know now that whatever days are left to me belong to him.

In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her.

As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to integrate that.

It's the main reason why I continue to push myself and my career to do more and more as the amount that you're able to raise for charity and to give to charity by my celebrity.

'Unbelievers' was a song that we felt like we could tackle, so that's one of the reasons we wanted to start playing it live, we really believed in that song and we still believe in that song a lot.

I always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason.

A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.

Look, nobody is ever exactly the same as anybody else. You're handed the cards you are for a particular reason, so you follow that path and see where it takes you.

In many people's many people's minds this is the sole reason Barack Obama was elected. He was elected to fix race relations.

I think if Donald Trump skipped out on a debate, for whatever reason he gave, I don't think it would help him at all.

There's a reason why young people think what they think. They are taught it. In many cases when they learn at home is erased or countered or overcome.

Even if you want to conjure up some things, they are not reason enough to rip America apart, particularly under the guise of fairness or whatever. It's destructive.

We should want small business, large business all doing well. We shouldn't want to punish them for the simple reason that they've gone into business, which is what the Democrats do.

One primary reason is, [Donald Trump's] supporters didn't care - and, in fact (and frustratingly so), his supporters ate it up. His supporters loved it.

The left are afraid of independent thinkers. They are afraid of people who are able to reason and think on their own.

America is a nation that is founded on the principle of religious freedom. That is the reason this country exists.

The Republicans want illegal immigrants for different reasons. They want 'em for cheap labor. Democrats want 'em for voters. Well, Republicans would like that too.

I think it's always been an arrangement that had political objectives and goals, which is fine. Get married for whatever reason you want, as far as I'm concerned.

Everybody thinks America's headed the wrong direction. There's a reason for it. We're where we are because of policies implemented by Obama Barack Obama and the Democrat Party.

In America, we have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. One of the reasons why companies have so much money offshore is because it's cheaper!

One of the reasons I think Barack Obama had the policy he did was purposely to create this flood of refugees from Syria. He wanted them!

The primary reason America has survived is that we have had leaders who've respected the Constitution, feared it and the rule of law, and we've been very lucky there.

The reason Donald Trump has supporters... I can go through the list for you. The issues are border/immigration, jobs, military, "make America great again..."

Cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits are unacceptable, and they shouldn’t be put on the table by Democrats for any reason...

There are good reasons why everybody should heed politicians' advise not to believe the media. One of the best is that the media report what politicians say.

I'm not a media darling. I'm forever the outsider, for whatever the reason is.

The reason I got a break in Hollywood when I moved here a few years ago is my good buddy, who I was on the beach with when he was a publicist, is now the chairman of HBO.

Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It's the most mainstream thing there is.

I don’t make the decision about what percentage of good guy or bad guy I play. For some reason, if I put my energy into the bad guy, that scares people. It’s magic.

For some strange reason I can put five bullets into that red thing in the middle of the target.

I hope you will be benefitted by your churchgoing. Where the habit does not Christianize, it generally civilizes. That is reason enough for supporting churches, if there were no higher.

I take it that reasonable human conduct is part of the ordinary course of things.