The Reason Quotes

Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile.

I am not a bloody ghoda running a race that you give me a tag. I am competitive, and the reason for that is that I want to do the best films.

Very rarely is there actually a functional reason for a fashion rule

Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.

Fear is the reason for making art. It is a means to freedom.

I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.

There is no reason to believe that the Holy Spirit ever leaves awakened sinners, only as they leave the truth of God for some error or sin.

As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line.

No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself

Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!

When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.

The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.

Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.

A big reason I wanted to do a tour was because I'm from Michigan and not many things go to Michigan. Most conventions are in like London or Florida or California, and that's about it.

What if we just acted like everything was easy?

I've always been quite psychic and believe there's a reason why things happen and that we need to learn from them.

The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.

The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic.

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world.

The press mainly want to destroy a program by revealing what's coming up. For some reason, soaps like doing that.

I wanted to leave high school in 1958 and join the Cuban revolution. So the only reason I did not come to join [Fidel] Castro was because my mother would not let me. I was only 16.

In their palate alone is their reason of existence. [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason.

The gospel doesn't just ignite the Christian life but it keeps Christians growing and growing every day. There's no reason to move beyond the gospel. There's only movement more into it.

The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.

That’s the reason, as your congressman, I hold the holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I’ll continue to do that.

We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.

there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants.

Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an impulse, is furnished, and the imagination does the rest.

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.

People want what they want. And I guess that is a reason we have this big credit card problem and a lot of these foreclosures.

I don't doubt myself ever, but people that don't know me do. I've been playing for 15 years, and have the most playoffs wins in Wings history for a reason, and not because I'm a bad goalie.

Every place you land in life has a reason and a lesson.

There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write.

My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.

An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and so on).

If I were really, truly in love with someone who was truly in love with me, then I would get married, but that would be the only reason I'd get married.

I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason.

Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains.

Intuition is reason in a hurry.

Be what you are. Don't change yourself for anything. God made you that way for a reason.

Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

Let reason govern desire.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the aesthetic of undermining and creative alienation that I really go for.

Many people who live in the USA feel blessed to live in a free country with many opportunities. For this reason, many try to come to the USA, and few ever wish to leave it.