The Reason Quotes

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

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.

I was brought here [New Orleans] for a reason. I feel like I can make a tremendous impact, not only with the team but in the community.

I think the reason Jesus is so popular, just on a celebrity level, is that he died at the peak of his career.

It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace.

HOPE sustains us through despair. Hope teaches that there is reason to rejoice...even when all seems dark around us.

There's always a reason for everything.

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

Secret to time is beyond our reason.

The reason that so many of us cannot save money is because of our friends. They're always buying something we can't afford.

I have been blessed by God. And if I'm blessed, there is one reason and one reason only, and that is to help others.

I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.

The reason so many of us struggle so intensely with adversity is that we have yet to adopt God's perspective and priorities.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.

I just remind myself that the gifts I have, I've been given for a reason and that every day brings new opportunities to use them.

There are many people who have big plans but their big plans never come true. The reason is, too many people have big plans but fail to keep their small agreements.

The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be.

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough into antiquity.

Nine times out of ten we find reasons for everything going on that aren't paranormal.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington.

Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters.

A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which caused it to exist.

The only reason I'm able to do music is because I'm making money on 'Community.' If I wasn't, I couldn't pay for things.

My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious

We should want to evangelize because of the joy that God puts in our hearts. Ultimately, that's the best reason for sharing our faith.

Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.

Of all my children, this is the one that cost me the worst birth-pangs and brought me the most sorrow; and for that reason it is the one most dear to me.

Every dimension of life, its gains and its losses, are reason for celebration because each of them brings us closer to wisdom and fullness of understanding.

It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.

The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.

I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!

The square is not a subconscious form. It is the creation of intuitive reason. The face of the new art. The square is a living, regal infant. The first step of pure creation in art.

As far as possible, join faith to reason.

Look at the flowers-for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.

Here’s what I think: the only reason I’m not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way.

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves.

FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.

There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter.

In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything.

Reason is the light, the sun of the brain. It is the compass of the mind, the ever-constant Northern Star, the mountain peak that lifts itself above all clouds.

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.