The Reason Quotes

Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.

One of the reasons that I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over.

Look out your window, and I'll be gone. You're the reason I'm a-traveling on.

A hope of something beyond our place and time. This is what books - the best books - give us: a lifeline, a reason to believe, a way to breathe more freely.

The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life.

I have seen these ways of God: I know of no reason For fire and change and torture and the old returnings.

Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.

Heaven is eternal and Earth everlasting. They can be eternal and everlasting because they do not exist for themselves, And for this reason can exist forever.

Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.

The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.

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.

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.

We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.

It is embarrassing to be caught and killed for stupid reasons

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

It is a woman's reason to say I will do such a thing because I will.

You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.

Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.

The reason we have this inner conviction that death is not the end - and that Heaven exists - is because we were created in the image of God.

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.

If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.

There's an oatmeal cookie in there. I see no reason for the existence of oatmeal, particularly in cookies.

It's my job to be better than the rest, and that's enough reason to go for me. It's my job to be better than the rest, and that makes the day for me.

I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.

Nobody does anything for one reason.

There must be some deep psychological reason why we turn so instinctively toward home at this special time. . . . A place where every day will be Christmas, with everybody there together. At home.

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.

The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second... then a third LP totally different from them. It's the reason we were able to keep it together.

One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.

Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.

For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.