The Reason Quotes

I've always loved stop motion animation and I particularly wanted to do stop motion with puppets that have fur, for whatever reason that is.

Ignorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word.

To make the peaks higher. [His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.]

I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.

I've always loved watching the news on TV. As a kid, I loved watching Walter Cronkite, for some reason.

I put so much pop culture in my movies because we speak about pop culture all the time. But, for some reason, movies exist in a world where there's no pop culture.

We have been just going like a house afire, and we couldent see any reason why we shouldent keep right on burning. Our tastes were acquired on credit, and we wanted to keep on enjoying 'em on credit.

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Out here I had been putting what little money I had in Ocean Frontage, for the sole reason that there was only so much of it and no more, and that they wasent making any more.

America's only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry against religious people. And the only reason for hatred of religion is that it forces us to confront matters many would prefer to ignore.

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

Our love is principle, and has its root In reason, is judicious, manly, free.

There is no more graceful and healthful accomplishment for a lady than fly-fishing, and there is no reason why a lady should not in every respect, rival a gentleman in the gentle art.

Principle II: The presumptions of the law are creative presumptions:;: they are aimed at conditions to be brought about, and only for that reason ignore conditions which exist.

Few women are dumb enough to listen to reason.

Maybe the reason some folks lag behind in our free enterprise system is because they depend too much on the free part and not enough on their own enterprise.

Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.

You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.

One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world.

Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.

In what we really understand, we reason but little.

Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.

The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House.

Faith branches off the highroad before reason begins

How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.

Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings.

For some reason, I seem to work well with actors. I love working with them.

For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.

One of the greatest myths of all time is that so-called civilized man is no longer an animal, and for that reason can strive to disarm himself and grow fat with false concepts.

Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.

But since the affairs of men rests still incertain, Let's reason with the worst that may befall.

Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.

Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted, and no sooner had Past reason hated

All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.

Nature's tears are reason's merriment.

The will of man is by his reason sway'd.

Love's reason's without reason

O, reason not the need!

Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.

Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear.

Love reasons without reason.

Good reasons must of force give place to better.

Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep.

Words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.

Passion makes the will lord of the reason.

I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so.

When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.

Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.