The Reason Quotes

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy

The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.

Believe that when something is meant to be, it will happen. In God's time. At the right moment. For the best reason. With the right person

The reason the U.S. lags so badly is that we have obsolete rules that favor big over small, supply over efficiency, and incumbents over new market entrants.

The information was kept hidden for the same reason we keep matches from children. In the correct hands, fire can provide illumination... but in the wrong hands, fire can be highly destructive.

Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.

I screwed up. It's all on me. I know that...All these hiccups I have, they must be for a reason. All this is just a test. I just don't know what the test is yet.

It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.

The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.

Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.

One of the reasons why a number of people have decided to go into the opposition were the reforms we carried out.

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

the reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day.

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

I think sometimes the very reason we go through something is so that we can be empathetic with another person later on.

Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.

I think that if my voice for some reason changes - because your voice does change - then it's time for me not to sing.

One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.

For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.

The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with the fact that they have used their instruments as tools for detailed communication.

The reason for your entire salvation, the design behind your deliverance, the purpose for which God chose you in the first place is holiness.

If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist.

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.

Tonight was not about winning, it was about focusing on myself and what I was aiming to do. It's the reason why I was able to swim so well

I think of a lot of comedy being watched alone, for some reason. It's surprising to me that people are getting together to watch stand-up comedy.

Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.

She's a walkin', talkin' reason to live.

The world has no reason for fighting in our defense, and as a matter of principle God does not make cowardly nations free.

If a person fears God, she has no reason to fear anything else.

Most people just give up with time and go, "I'm a victim." The only reason I've got the reputation for delays and spending a long time on things is because I just don't stop.

It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done it - yah!' The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it.

Meditation, more than any other factor, has been the reason for what success I've had.

Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.

We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I was a father.

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.

We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. Theres a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

The main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for treasuring him in all things and above all things.

The best reason to diminish social programs is not to put more money in people's pockets but to put more responsibility in people's pockets.

And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.

The bands that have been the most important to me, and the records that have been the most important to me as a fan, have been records that surprised me for one reason or another.

She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.