The Reason Quotes

A journey does not need reasons. Before long, it proves to be reason enough in itself. One thinks that one is going to make a journey, yet soon it is the journey that makes or unmakes you.

One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

Nothing under the sun is ever accidental.

I have been told to reason by the heart, But heart, like head, leads helplessly; I have been told to reason by the pulse, And, when it quickens, alter the actions' pace

We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.

I was here for a reason. There was something I was meant not simply to be, but to do- and it wasn't to run or hide or give up the minute things seemed terrifying and impossible.

I don't see any reason why I should look for someone who never took the trouble to love me.

I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.

Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life.

Civilization involves subjection of force to reason, and the agency of this subjection is law.

For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.

The reason we wouldn't make a seven-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a price point, it's because we don't think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.

There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.

Looking forward with an eternal perspective gives one hope, a reason to look up and feel gratitude for even the smallest bit of light.

But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.

The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main reason a child and a parent will go back to a book again and again.

The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts, to be able to get the best of both.

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.

And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it.

Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.

I want to be able to speak freely about what I believe. There's a lot of people who would actually like to be able to do that but, for whatever reason, they can't.

The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.

Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.

If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast.

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

Basketball came to me and for some reason it gave me an opportunity to live a life that I didn't dream possible. But it did let me live my dreams.

The reason most folksongs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people.

The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.

We don't have faith in reason; we use reason because, unlike revelation, it produces results and understanding. Even discussing why we should use reason employs reason!

What do you do with all this bank, Josie? Be a lot easier if you just lifted your skirt.” “The only reason I’d lift my skirt is to pull out my pistol and plug you in the head.

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.

A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

The reason I don't tweet as much as I used to, is because I'm sick of all the useless opinions and hate that I get daily. Goodbye Twitter.

But really, what else are you going to talk about in line at the liquor store? Childhood trauma seems like the natural choice, since it’s the reason why most of us are in line there to begin with.

And all I really want to say is you're the reason I want to stay.

It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.

Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes you won't be on the beneficial end of it but either way it's a blessing in disguise.

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.

There's a reason why actors are always dying to work with the Coens. They just set the stage for you to do their best work.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

For the same reason I read the National Geographic, I like to see places I will never visit.

Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?

When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.

The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.

For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it.

Short people got no reason to live.