The Reason Quotes

Just remember everything happens for a reason. We just have to pick ourselves up, and look on the bright side of life.

The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces by the Serbs.

The only reason I started swimming was for water safety. Then, once I started falling in love with sports, I got more comfortable with it.

The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.

Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

The reason America is a special nation is because it was founded by people who were first on their knees before they were on their feet. We are a nation rooted in our faith.

I stupidly memorize my credit card and use it about thrice weekly for online shopping. The only reason I don't bankrupt myself is that I return about 75% of what I buy.

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned.

MAN’S ONLY LIMITATION, within reason, LIES IN HIS DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF HIS IMAGINATION.

I can honestly say that probably 95% of the things I was afraid of, it turned out I had no reason to be. So drop fear by the wayside. Just... let it go. Then make way for a surprising tomorrow.

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.

The reason we form networks is because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs. It's to our advantage as individuals and a species to assemble ourselves in this fashion.

The whole reason to study (and learn to control) body language is to have that support (rather than undercut) your message.

Where violence reigns, reason is weak.

That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.

I never ask Candace Parker if she was thinking about leaving because I never had any reason to believe she would. I just kept the focus on the team and on Candace and the role she played for us.

Then you will have to trust me. Beyond logic, beyond reason, beyond hope, trust me.

No one has ever described the place where I have just arrived: this is the emotion that makes me want to travel. It is one of the greatest reasons to go anywhere.

The Saint finds her true reason for living in unconditional love and in her ability to give without asking anything in return.

God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.

The reason why I don't have a hero is because heroes set a bar - whereas if we don't have one, our potential is unlimited.

The Encyclopedia - the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment.

For some reason focusing on destruction and mortality is more poetically exciting to me than hope and love.

Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.

Remember always, that man is a creature whose reason is often darkened with error.

There are no unemployed, either in Russia or in Dartmoor jail, and for the same reason.

Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by Christian reason and morals.

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.

The reason they were designated as targets was to keep them from the witness stand and us. Is it just a coincidence that four years later they haven't been indicted

Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities.

Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil.

The reason that one person rejects you will be the exact same reason someone else is drawn to you.

One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control.

Isn’t it obvious, Sage? No, of course it isn’t. I did it so I’d have a reason to be around you — one I knew you couldn’t refuse.

If you have ever said, "I didn't get anything out of worship today," you worshiped for the wrong reason. Worship isn't for you. It's for God.

The only reason I work out is so I can eat more cheese.

Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness?

There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.

A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.

You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.

Never prod at a woman unless you must. She will kill you faster than a man and for less reason, even if she weeps over it after.

The reason so many people fail to achieve success is because they fail to fail enough times.

Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them.

And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die? Here's thirty thousand Cornish men, Will know the reason why!

I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as it gets. Not internally but externally - that's my bloodline.