The Reason Quotes

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

It is embarrassing to be caught and killed for stupid reasons

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The war existing between the senses and reason.

The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.

The reason for great distress is the body. Without it, what distress could there be?

I hate to lose time on the set. On the set, you have to go at a good pace, because the clock is your master. For that reason, I have to know exactly what I'm trying to get beforehand.

For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.

There is no one just like you, and there never will be anyone just like you, so there's no reason not to be original.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

Childhood is the sleep of reason. [Fr., L'enfance est le sommeil de la raison.]

To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.

Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

Relationships give us a reason to live. Revenge.

We love without reason, and without reason we hate.

Faith doesn't begin until reason stops.

Just because you have a blog doesn't mean that you should, like, lie for no reason.

The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.

Reason doesn't mean very much in a country like North Korea.

I've suffered from pretty dark depressing times, and it's probably - not probably - it is the reason why I chose to lead a healthy lifestyle.

You're so beautiful but that's not why I love you, I'm not sure you know this but the reason I love you is you