The Reason Quotes

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote, Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat? I'm fourteen years old, that is the reason, I giggle and dote in season.

I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball.

The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.

There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words.

For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us in the software business.

I watch life trickle from the bullet wound of a sixteen-year-old "example" and marvel how things weak, even words, will turn vicious and merciless to gain power,despite reason or history

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.

One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.

The love she left behind will be the reason dreams are reached. She was the rock in a world that was crumbling. Her strength will remain. It’s in our hearts.

I always say that things are meant to be and everything happens for a reason, so I don't have any regrets.

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

Very few people are conscious of the deeper strata of eternity. The primary reason is either because they lack purity or they lack motivation.

It's very easy for us to be humble when no one else is around. There is no reason for us to demonstrate our superiority, because no one challenges it.

I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.

When reason rules, money is a blessing.

We don't need to have somebody that's gonna make sure they pay for our market bills. It's like we have only one reason to love and that is for the real idea of love.

There is nothing that isn't perfect, the only reason we don't see that perfection constantly is because we lack humility.

There's a reason for everything, you said, and though it's a mystery to me now, I know it won't always be so.

When you find your reason for living, hold onto it. Never let it go. Even if it means burning other bridges along the way.

It doesn't feel good when you're put down, and especially for no uncertain reason.

I'm too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I'm not a very sentimental person.

Critics have a job to do. They do not criticize you without reason.

The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new concept in terms of ideas which existed before.

Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

I am a huge advocate of prescription drugs given wisely and for the right reasons and the right diagnosis and also psychotherapy.

I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.

Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it.

for some reason Gale and Peeta do not coexist well in my thoughts.

Necessity moderates more troubles than reason.

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating.

However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent.

I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin.

In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

What workers must learn is that the only reason why wage rates are higher in the United States is that the per head quota of capital invested is higher.

My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmatic if for some reason these laws and two times two is four are not to my liking?

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.

If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk. But so far there's been no reason not to try anything.