The Reason Quotes

The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

Don't expect me to cry for the wrong reasons.

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.

One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

Mathematics is one of the deepest and most powerful expressions of pure human reason, and, at the same time, the most fundamental resource for description and analysis of the experiential world.

Sports are the reason I am out of shape. I watch them all on TV.

The reason I emphasize that is because that is exactly what happened when Mussolini was put in by the king of Italy.

An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.

Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to kill people and to destroy.

I can't imagine not having a reason to get out of bed at night.

must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.

I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.

I don't find the idea of sewing degrading. A thing is degrading when you are forced to do it, through economic reasons or through slavery or some other form of compulsion.

For whatever reason, people aren't taught that sugar is a massive enemy.

I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't.

The unique essence of being an artist is dying. Eveything looks the same. Now there’s a formula. And it works. - But it takes away from the reason we do it.

The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject.

One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.

You reason like the king, who, being sent across the frontier, called out, 'What will become of my poor subjects without me?'

Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

Why don't we have the chemistry that Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet had in Titanic? I'll tell you one reason: Because we're not in a movie!

Let but faithful labourers be found, who will prove faithful to God, and there is no reason to fear that God will not prove faithful to them.

One of the reasons I came into politics was because I thought I lacked the skills to be a social worker.

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

It is hard to stay focused with so much swirling around me. God is distracting. He never stops talking, and I can never stop listening. There is a reason we sleep.

Entertain me, heroes of Olympus. Give me a reason to do more." Bacchus to Percy and Jason

The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.

To love our nothingness we must love everything in us that the proud man loves when he loves himself. But we must love it all for exactly the opposite reason.

One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate the hospital, such as doctors and nurses.

The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

Rude staff, bad lighting, and dirty bathrooms are all signs of a bad restaurant and a good reason to leave a restaurant!

One reason why so many Christians today don't know the Old Testament is because their 'gospel' doesn't even need it.

Reason can be used only when looking critically back.

I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral grounds, some texture.

You don't have to wear fur. They make such great fakes. There's no reason to kill an animal.

A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.

Normal birth to me should not be numb from the waist down and waiting for the doctor to tell you to push. There's a reason we feel it. There's a reason we need to feel it.

Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry.

Is a reason nesessary? I don't know why you would kill someone. But as for saving someone... A logical mind isn't needed, right? -Kudou Shinichi

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.

The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.

Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.

He that cannot reason is a fool.