The Reason Quotes

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

We let off a Dungbomb in the corridor and it upset him for some reason—" "So he hauled us off to his office and started threatening us with the usual—" "—detention—" "—disembowelment—

The reason why we fail to prevail with unconverted men is due to our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.

I always try to keep in mind the I do all that training for a reason, which is to compete to the best of my ability.

We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.

By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.

Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.

Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

The primary reason in starting a business part-time is not so much to make a product great. The real reason for starting a part-time business is to make you a great businessperson.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn't forget that schooling was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed before becoming a student.

Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.

I don't ask my wife to face Michael Holding, so there's no reason why I should be changing nappies.

Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!

All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.

Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.

It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.

Never let anything come in between you and your Passion. Let negative people and backstabbers be the reason you put wood into your Fire and Motivate you to reach Above and Beyond

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

Though you have sinned much, that is no reason why you should despair, but only why you should love much, having so much forgiven.

The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.

For whatever reason, I have an emotional life that wants to come out.

We now know that unity, the cornerstone of Canada's greatness and prosperity, is above all a matter of emotion and reason for every citizen.

I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.

Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

Reason offers us many possibilities at once. Intuition infallibly chooses the best. Remember this and you cannot err; you will always make the right choice.

To miss out on joy is to miss out on the reason for your existence.

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

For more than two decades, I repeatedly voiced the mantra that - situated as we are virtually on the coastline of the world's richest economy - Jamaica has no reason to be poor.

Love alone is never a good enough reason to marry.

The primary reason for failure is that people do not develop new plans to replace those plans that didn't work.

I stay patient. I don't go out there and try to set a course record. That's probably one of my strengths and one reason I've been able to win major championships.

The reason so many of us are obsessed with becoming stars is because we are not yet starring in our own lives. The cosmic spotlight isn't pointed at you, it radiates from within you.

A clear conscience is absolutely essential for distinguishing between the voice of God and the voice of the enemy. Unconfessed sin is a prime reason why many do not know God's will.

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.

One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

The seed you sow today will not produce crop till tomorrow. For this reason, your identity does not lie in your current results. This is not who you are. your current results are who you were.

Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason.

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

The reason I trust so much is that I don't feel like I have anything to hide. If somebody betrays that trust, it could never be so bad, because I don't keep any secrets.