The Reason Quotes

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

I'd need a good reason to drop my pants

The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.

Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct.

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

When reason ends, then anger begins. Therefore, anger is a sign of weakness.

For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.

Where there is no standard, there can be no improvement. For these reasons, standards are the basis for both maintenance and improvement

The only reason we stress is something is happening that we decided should not be happening. It is not the circumstance that is the problem. It is our resistance to it.

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

Hitler is simply pure reason incarnate

For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks.

You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.

There is no reason why the aeroplane should not open up a fruitful occupation for women.

The first rule of Zombieland: Cardio. When the zombie outbreak first hit, the first to go, for obvious reasons ... were the fatties.

As long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train'

That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

The only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word conformity.

If you keep in mind that love and love alone is the reason for living, it will calm your heart and free you from your worries.

The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.

Today, we are shapers of the world of tomorrow. That is plain truth. There is no way we can duck the responsibility, and there is no reason why we should.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.

The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.

Why bad things happen to good people

The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them

You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.

The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation.

It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

We are not the reason the gospel works; the gospel is the reason the gospel works.

Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

The only reason people lock their car doors when Obama walks by is they are afraid he'll tax them to death...

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.

He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.

White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can't do it.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

There was no reason for a revolution in Paraguay.