The Reason Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

When one approach is not working to reach the desired goal, that's not a reason to abandon the goal. Instead, it is time to devise another approach.

People say I stole a lot of bases. I stole the bases for a reason. I crossed the plate.

The only reason Woodstock was necessary is because they didn't have iTunes.

Any structure must have a strong foundation. The cornerstones anchor the foundation. For some reason the cornerstones that I chose to begin with I never changed.

Good judgment, common sense, and reason all fly out the window when emotions kick down your door.

Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.

The reason why principles are so important is because principles make life predictable.

You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime.

I do believe in forgiving and forgetting. There was a reason we were together. I just want to hold on to the good times.

Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good reason, even if that reason is not always apparent.

If for some reason you are unsure where to go, all you have to do is stand there looking lost, and within seconds a helpful New Yorker will approach to see if you have any "spare" change.

Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.

I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best

Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciousness, every encounter with the world around us.

A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason

The reason why Nokia has been built in Finland is simply because Finland was very far behind in terms of infrastructure, so it was relatively easy to implement new technology.

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

GIVE ME YOUR REASON TO BELIeVE

There's never any reason to trust someone. If there's a reason, then it's not trust. -Terence

False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.

Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.

I don't think you should support the death penalty to seek revenge. I don't think that's right. I think the reason to support the death penalty is because it saves other people's lives.

I prefer to cry alone, Pride? No. I just want to avoid trial of people who don't know the reason of my tears.

Part of the reason my friends and I became successful is that we were always helping each other.

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.

I was at Live Aid the original, looking like Rolf Harris for some reason. I had a really long beard that day for some reason.

I believe in intuition and inspiration...at times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason.

I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.

Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives.

[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.

As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.

I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.

Let him who is worthy by reason of his clear eye and unjaded heart wander across these borders of beauty and mystery and be glad.

Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is. We fall in love with someone for a reason. That reason is either temporary or permanent.