The Reason Quotes

The reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played.

We couldn't get along without him. We needed Johnny as much as he needed the gang. And for the same reason.

When Im writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids havent left me.

We will not put our sons in prison for political membership or resisting occupation, because occupation is the reason for the problem.

One of the reasons the Europeans don't like the Muslims is because they are religious. Americans like the fact that they are religious. They just don't like the form it takes.

I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.

I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.

I care much more about the growth rate of the market than it's current size and I also care if there's any reason it's going to top out.

I'm not really a folk singer, but I love the music and there's certain lines that will get just stuck in my head, and they seem to be stuck there for a reason, and I start singing them.

When you're running, when you're in elected office, you're surrounded with power. And, so every single day, you have to remind yourself why you're here, and that people put you here for a reason.

Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

I was kind of always attracted to red. I used to wear red socks a lot for some crazy reason.

It requires time to bring honest Men to think & determine alike even in important Matters. Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.

He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason.

Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.

What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?

Whatever is proposed, it is much easier to find reasons for rejecting than embracing.

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.

Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.

No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful.

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.

Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the first remembered, tones of her blessed voice.

Conscience is the pulse of reason

Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.

First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.

Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason.

call it crazy, or just chicken salad. But within reason, or without it i was in it too.

Who says there has to be a point?" He asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do.

I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for a cause.

Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people.

The reason the rest of us remember, like, when John Lennon died, is because it's a moment when adrenaline is surging.

Education must remove hatred between the pilgrims on the various roads to God. There is only one God, one Goal, one Law, one Truth, one Religion and one Reason.

The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community.

One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about that that keeps it fresh to the viewer.

The reason why most of actors got into acting was so that we could become other people and have fun with being somebody else.

The only hope we have are our bodies. We're all trapped in them and we all hate them, and it's this reason why we're comic and not tragic.

I have a slight fear of sharks for some reason.I have a slight fear of sharks for some reason.

You see, here in America there's a reason why we celebrate the 4th of July and not April 15th because in America we celebrate our independence from the government, not our dependence on it.

Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.

I am driven by a greater force than I can resist. I believe that force has its own reason and its own morality even if they may never be clear to me while I am alive

Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.

Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

Virtue is nothing else than right reason

A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.

This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will.