The Reason Quotes

I can't just listen to music walking down the street unless I have a reason to. I can't just listen to music as a piece of junk in the background. It drives me insane.

Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition.

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

The reason so many financial advisors are called brokers is because they are often broker than you.

The bad thing about falling into pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've got nothing left to protect, and so have no reason not to be honest

People do things for "their" reasons, not ours. So find their reasons.

Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason.

I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat.

The main reason for healing is love.

You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does.

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future, so I want to be reasonably sure of what kind of future it's going to be. That is my reason for planning.

All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord.

Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.

No matter how bad the individual, everybody has reasons for why they do what they do.

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.

People always do the right thing for the wrong reason.

... Our ability to reason has not given us special status, only a greater responsibility.

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

The reason so many people do not pray is because of its cost. The cost is not so much in the sweat of agonizing supplication as in the daily fidelity to the life of prayer.

I am never upset for the reason I think.

If people were super-optimistic about technology there would be no reason to be pessimistic about the future.

I actually hate receiving gifts, it makes me very uncomfortable for some reason.

Happy (if mortals can be) is the man,Who, not by priest but Reason, rules his span:Reason, to its possessor a sure guide,Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.

It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a worm: in all such instances we torture two animals at once for our amusement.

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.

Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

The only reason people are saying I'm the number-one player is because I'm with the number-one team.

In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason.

I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. I am greatly supported in this view by reason of this great river [Ozama], and by this sea which is fresh.

You have to think before speaking. That's a quality I'm continuously evolving. For some reason, it seems like I'm bumping my head into the wall a little bit too many times.

And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people.

Your family is depending on you. No better reason to bring all your game all the time.

For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone.

I think people come into our lives for a reason, and we can learn from them, and they have lessons to teach us.

It is for this reason that Jesus left us the parable of the unfaithful servant, inviting us into a sincere fraternity in order that through it we could find the path of rehabilitation.

What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.

Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.

When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.

For some strange reason, no matter where I go, the place is always called "here".

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

I'm trying to make some sense out of the phrase "Everything happens for a reason," and I think I've figured out what the reason is - to pissed me off.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience.

Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.

Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.

Once man's connection to the divine is denied, you can reason yourself from here to anywhere.