The Reason Quotes

Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask.

Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.

There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying. Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do.

If we can hump dead animals and antelopes, there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope.

Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue has been decided.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

Conservative Denyers and Delayers are the main reason America lacks the consensus and the political will to take up the fight against catastrophic climate change.

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise.

The reason educational spending in Texas is so low is because you don't have a state tax there, and that's why Texas is big growth because you don't tax people to death.

It's you. You deserve this. There is a reason this is happening to you.

He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books.

Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to.

The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance

When people talk about successful retailers and those that are not so successful, the customer determines at the end of the day who is successful and for what reason.

A state may launch a pre-emptive strike if it has very good reason for thinking that another state is preparing for war.

I put my ideas into practice. That may be the reason people hate me.

Call it peace or call it treason / call it love or call it reason / but I ain't marching anymore

The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason.

If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.

If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child.

The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go.

The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.

For greatness is only the drayhorse that coaxes The built cart out; and where we go is reason. But genius is an enormous littleness, a trickling Of heart that covers alike the hare and the hunter.

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.

Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.

Unreached peoples are unreached for a reason. They're hard, difficult, and dangerous to reach. All the easy ones are taken

For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: "It is unlucky to marry in May.

But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me.

I don't believe in God. I believe in man -- in his strength, his possibilities, and his reason.

Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?

You must all know about Bourgain, so I don't have to write his name on the board-for an obvious reason.

Unfortunately, there's no greater rhyme or reason as to why it would be me. And since there is no answer as to why me, it's not a question I feel really entitled to ask.

I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?

There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

You were trying to tell me something and I was trying to tell you something else. We didn't trust each other and that was reason enough to make each of us right.

One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy.

Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his contempt.

Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems in C, so you don't.

All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

I don't believe in having regrets. I believe everything happens for a reason even when we don't want it to happen. Every high and every low moment has a lesson waiting for you to find it.