The Reason Quotes
There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.
The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason... affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.
You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.
The main reason we understand what we're doing is because we're the individuals doing it. One of the things that surprises me is that all the songs are about me, and it's cool that people care.
That's the only reason I'm here. I don't need to play the game for any other reason than to win a championship.
Things happen they way they're meant to. There's a pattern and a shape to everything...Nothing happens without a reason...Nothing is impossible...(Page 180).
I am backing Remain for a very simple reason: it is the best way of protecting jobs, wages and rights for working people.
It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
I want to stretch myself. Another reason why I'm so fortunate is that this is a drama and I've been brought up in comedy.
nothing is stronger or better founded than the sentiments for which we can give no reason.
The loss of music is very painful, and I don't revisit stuff unless there is a solid reason to do it.
I don't have a problem with dying but I have a problem with what I'm going to die for. I don't want to die for no reason at all. If I'm going to die for something, I want it to be worthwhile.
The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike.
I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.
The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.
There is no reason, in a free society, that farmers shouldn’t be allowed to raise hemp. Hemp is a good product.
The image of a community is fundamentally important to its economic well-being. If all places look alike, there's no reason to go anywhere.
I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell . . .
The reason why men who mind their own business succeed is that they have so little competition.
I often feel like books find us for reasons, and we read them when we need them the most.
The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.
There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.
Leaders volunteer to go first into danger. Their willingness to sacrifice for us is the reason we're inspired to follow.
Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.
It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time.
...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting.
There's a reason Tony Stark makes fun of 'Thor,' and mentions 'Shakespeare' in the park in 'The Avengers.' It's great to play high drama and comedy alongside a modern story.
These are hallowed moments, when every American has reason to express his gratitude to Almighty God that it has been our good fortune to witness the light of this auspicious morn.
If you read Animal Farm, you know that humans traditionally forget the reason we have revolutions in the first place.
A good man not only forbears those gratifications which are forbidden by reason and religion, but even restrains himself in unforbidden instances.
For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes.
Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.
People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.
And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy.
The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents
One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.
Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.