The Reason Quotes

I think the reason I'm an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people.

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.

I prefer a kind of sweet, deep, rich prayer in which a person goes in and says, Take me down deep into the reason you gave me life. Take me down deep. It silences the chaos in me.

My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

There is every reason to believe that our system will soon attain the highest degree of perfection of which human institutions are capable.

Without the threat of death, there's no reason to live... at all.

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

You see, in this world there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them.

The reason you have descended into physical life is to unleash the power of your soul upon Earth.

I constantly walk into a room and I don't remember why. But for some reason, I think there's going to be a clue in the fridge.

There isn't any reason to dislike people with whom you disagree. I have lots of friends who don't agree with me.

I think people say women come into their prime in their 40s. And then for some reason our society just wants to go... it's like a dead flower.

Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of thirty-five.

A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause

There is nothing Modern about doing dumb things for dumb reasons.

The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?

It's so important to forgive people for their wrongs in your own life because every bit of it was for a reason-it was to form the person that you are.

Profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of human reason, and it is the superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief.

My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.

The only reason Christ submitted himself to the horrendous experience of bearing the sins of the entire world is because his death provided the only way for reconciliation with God.

If you aren’t where you want to be or you haven’t achieved all you hope to achieve, the reason most likely resides not around you but within you. Take responsibility and then take action.

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Once the people begin to reason, all is lost

Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.

I don't believe in fate," he said carefully, "but... I do believe everything happens for a reason. That there is some plan, some meaning to this darkness we live in.

An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect the absence of the other.

Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.

The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing ... without rhyme or reason.

The emotional build-up and anticipation if you travel at Christmas can make it harder to enjoy a trip. I think sometimes it is better to travel outside of conventional holiday times for that reason.

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.

I don't know one actor that became an actor for healthy reasons.

There's nothing wrong with losing your temper for the right reasons.

Sometimes you may feel like you are just about to realize your goal only to fall short. That is no reason to quit. Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.

Everything happens for a reason and that reason is there to assist me.

Return to the purity of your innocence where you are enchanted with life. Give love for no reason. Surround yourself with others doing the same.

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.

The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.

For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school. For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.

The only reason free markets have a ghost of a chance is that they are so much more efficient than any other form of organization.

The only reason I can hold up my head is because when He set me free He gave me my dignity back.