The Reason Quotes
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult for any but natives to speak a language correctly or idiomatically.
Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half-guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears.
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.
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 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.
Most of the nations around the world are led by tyrants and dictators and thugs who are leading their countries for one reason.
Me myself I park in handicap, the reason why... ya know my bankroll make me walk with a crazy limp.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes.
A good man not only forbears those gratifications which are forbidden by reason and religion, but even restrains himself in unforbidden instances.
If you read Animal Farm, you know that humans traditionally forget the reason we have revolutions in the first place.
The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play.
We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.
There's shames a man can never reason away, though he looks back and piles up reasons over them forty dozen deep. And maybe those are the shames a man never should reason away.
What Donald Trump knows is that people across this country and indeed world are afraid of terrorism, and they have a reason to.
I am Bourbon as a matter of honour, royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character.
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County.
The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.
The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.
Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.
Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom.
Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.
You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
Is there a chance? A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel? A reason to fight? Is there a chance you may change your mind? Or are we ashes and wine?
Have the courage to follow your passion - and if you don't know what it is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it.
I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.
... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.