The Reason Quotes

There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason.

The music is the void. And you're the reason why.

There's no reason you'd shoot Mother Theresa and Newt Gingrich the same way.

If everything in the past has value, then there’s no reason for regret, ever.

This then is the age of reason.

Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.

I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.

We must never get into the habit of being preoccupied with the future. There is no reason to do so. God is there.

I have never sought the reason why I write.

Because we bring so little is no reason to bring nothing.

It wouldn't kill you to get me an iced coffee." "No, but not getting killed doing something is not a very compelling reason to do it.

I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.

... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.

we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.

Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.

With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff.

I came back [to Beijing ] because that's the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back.

We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.

It is impossible to get anywhere without sinning against reason.

I want Cuba . . . I want Tamaulipas, Potosi, and one or two other Mexican States; and I want them all for the same reason for the planting and spreading of slavery.

I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.

Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.

Aubrey's voice when he answered was soft. "I'm one of the reasons they wouldn't dare.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.

To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.

There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.

I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.

I'm pretty much a workaholic, but when you're doing what you love it's hard to think of a reason to stop.

Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.

What reason has one for existing other than to be involved with what is actually being created in your particular time?

Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.

Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?

MAN THE BATTLE STATIONS! Someone's coming who wants to reason with us.

People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. they did not give or ask for reasons.

Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers.

I don't really see the point in making a film unless you can think of a good reason to do it.

I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.

I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.

He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.

The only reason that we like complex numbers is that we don't like real numbers.

You can't make decisions if there are no charges or issues to deal with. So it's quite normal to wait until there is some reason to react.

That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a way out.

I believe we all have the Voice of Reason inside us...to gently lead us out of our own self-created hells.

Why can't God just defeat the devil and get rid of evil? It's the same reason the comic book character can't get rid of his nemesis; then there's no story.

That's the reason I'm not the one that's dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful.

There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.

Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him. That's one of the reasons I beat him - because I respected him.

I have a feeling that we have been placed on this earth for a special reason and although I have not fulfilled all my missions, I am trying.