The Reason Quotes

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

I learned that there's no reason why people decide they like music when they do.

Taiwan and China are related ethnically and close neighbors geographically. There's no reason to resent or to fight against each other.

There's a reason why the NRA's not here. They're just down the street. And since this is the main reason they exist, you'd think that they'd be prepared to have a debate with a president.

Each day, you get an ounce more confidence. When we're playing like we are, there's no reason not to.

Some comedians change their style, often to their advantage; but I see no reason why I can't continue with the "urbane sophisticate" 'til the day I die.

Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one.

No one has ever understood anything better by assuming that there is no reason for why it is the way it is.

The No. 1 reason women stay in abusive relationships - because they're not able to take care of themselves financially. It's also the No. 1 reason why women go back.

I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.

There is no reason why capitalists and entrepreneurs should be ashamed of earning profits.

Never settle. There is no reason to rush.

Life is too short to torture yourself for no reason.

An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.

Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it.

Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.

I'm hyperactive, and I went in the studio and I would just start making records, for no reason.

I'm a big believer that there's a reason for everything. I'm a hopeless optimist.

What I believe when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason - and it's not to fail and die.

If things are nice there is probably a good reason why they are nice: and if you do not know at least one reason for this good fortune, then you still have work to do.

I see no reason to stop writing. But the reason isn't always one of your own. The mind is not invulnerable, and it can lose some of its powers.

There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.

There's no reason to do anything twice, and certainly no reason to do something that almost killed you.

Smile, my friends, my soulful friends, smile. Let us smile. True, this world of ours is full of suffering and excruciating pangs, but that is no reason why we should not smile.

Go beyond reason to love: it is safe. It is the only safety.

The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.

Sometimes my husband will surprise me with flowers for no reason. Unexpected romantic gestures are very important and keep things exciting.

Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason.

The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.

People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is that I couldn't sing, so I had to talk! Lou Reed was probably the one who started it all.

Reason is intuition's servant.

You are not special. There is no plan for you. Nothing happens for a reason. Just try not to die and shut up.

I wrote a whole novel before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, for some reason I stuck at novels and wrote a second. Still not sure why I didn't give up. Stubborn, maybe.

Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.

When you meet a director who wants to remake a movie, you have to ask, does he or she have an interesting vision and idea, something that intrigues you - is there a reason why we should do this?

The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.

For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.

The reason is that Chile is the brightest spot in Latin America. It has very fast growth, low unemployment. It privatized its Social Security system, which we in USA were unable to do.

The underlying reason for this is the Europeans' fear that Islamists could gain power. Many still consider authoritarian Arab regimes to be the lesser evil.

When the remarkable becomes bizarre, reason turns rancid.

Going from crying to laughing that fast and hard happens maybe five times in your life and that extreme right turn is the reason why we are alive, and I believe it extends our life by many years.

What is virtue? reason put into practice: -talent? reason expressed with brilliance: -soul? reason delicately put forth; and genius is sublime reason.

The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't.

The primary reason we do too much is that we have never taken the time to discover that portion of what we do that makes the biggest difference.

I'm a collector - I collect everything. I can't throw things away. For some reason I think I'm going to need tiny wooden teddy bears with their arms hacked off.

It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.

A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order - willed, faked, and so brought into being.

The only reason people write is because they are not wonderful men.