The Reason Quotes

I saw Chekhov a number of times in English, and I thought that it translates very well in English, for some reason, from the Russian to the English.

I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.

Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason.

The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.

There has to be a real strong reason to do something with someone for me.

The will of man is by his reason swayed.

We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason.

I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.

True worship is obedience to God for no other reason than that you delight in God.

Convictions do not imply reasons.

Never betray His principles for any reason whatsoever, and take great care not to spoil God's affairs by too much haste in them.

You must have a reason to be in the places to which you go, and you must do only things that you really care about.

Surrender to a logic more powerful than reason.

A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

The vampire thing always works for some reason. Always works.

If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.

Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.

There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.

There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.

This job will drive me to drink, and for that reason, I will be eternally grateful.

For some reason I seem to be a massive hit with middle-aged women. I seriously don't know what it is.

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

The only reason you're still conscious is because I don't want to carry your body.

The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor, and he was in Colorado.

Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous - reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision.

I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.

My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.

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

Dogs, for a reason that can only be described as divine, have the ability to forgive, let go of the past, and live each day joyously. It's something the rest of us strive for.

Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's passage for some reason.

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.

The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?

The war existing between the senses and reason.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.

No matter what I do, my songs come out in a certain style, and if that sounds like Dead Kennedys, then there's probably a reason for it. Don't forget, I wrote most of those songs, music and lyrics.

There's a reason women are pregnant for nine months; by the end, you're ready to have this baby.

Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident

The only reason I wanted to get one [a star on Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame] was because Simon Cowell didn't have one.

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy.

If we knew exactly what to expect throughout the Solar System, we would have no reason to explore it.

How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change. With nothing causing it.

I am like the heaven, like the moon, like a candle by your glow; I am all reason, all love, all soul, by your soul.

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

God made us for one reason: so He could have fellowship with us. It wasn't that He was lonely or needed us but He made us in His image so He could shower His love upon us.

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.