The Reason Quotes

I'm originally from Tampa and grew up on beach. I'm also naturally fair-skinned. The funny thing is, my parents are both pretty tan, but for some reason I didn't get those genes.

Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it.

Banks get in trouble for one reason: They make bad loans.

Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.

That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.

It's called 'falling in love' for a reason: it does not have to be forced and cannot be planned. It just happens naturally, and if you're lucky, it takes you by surprise.

It's so easy to judge everybody and for some reason extra weight is the one thing everything feels OK to joke about.

You know, there's a reason we can remember," [Catarina] said more softly. "That's much easier when your life has an expiration date." "It may be more important for us.

Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die.

About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine known gradations, my reason tells me I ought to conquer the cold shudder.

For whatever reason, acting took the front seat but all of the projects that I've been doing seem to have some sort of musical element to them.

All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.

You can wave your signs in protest against America taking stands. The stands America's taken are the reason that you can.

Everybody is looking for a reason to not to take responsibility for their own actions in hand.

The reason I still work at this stage of life is because I enjoy learning something new each day.

I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to other people: paintings, books, movies.

She [Marilyn Monroe] was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short.

At the end of the day, everybody has to take the right decisions for the right reasons.

Ultimately, the reason why love and compassion bring the greatest happiness is simply that our nature cherishes them above all else. The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs.

Pain only hurts when you are looking for a reason to quit. You don't feel a thing when you know you can still win.

Tears are curious things, for like earthquakes or puppet shows, they can occur at any time, without any warning and without any good reason.

I feel like everything comes into your life for a reason.

The science fair has long been a favorite educational tool in the American school system, and for a good reason: Your teachers hate you.

The only reason to go into business is to make money. You have to work hard at it. If you're not passionate about it, you'll burn out so fast that it is incredible.

The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary

The drama bug strikes hardest with Jews, homosexuals and plump women who wear their hair in bangs. These are people who, for one reason or another, desperately crave attention

Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.

You are here for a reason.

An alibi is a reason with a bad reputation.

I like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, "When all else fails, men turn to reason."

Hide your gold, your faith and the reason of you journey.

According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.

[The] emperor of the West, the feeble and dissolute Valentinian, [had] reached his thirty-fifth year without attaining the age of reason or courage.

Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.

Article Five: If you have no reason or ability to accomplish anything, then just practice the art of becoming.

I hold him to my chest. My love for him is the only unequivocally good thing I know is always there inside of me. It is the reason I should be spared all that is coming, the only reason.

I think there are too many smart people pursuing internet stuff, finance, and law. That is part of the reason why we haven't seen as much innovation.

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.

I'm addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I'm basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever.

The best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying our unbelief starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day.

Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

Misery doesn't only love company. It demands it. For this reason, don't walk away from negative people. RUN!

There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?

I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.

Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.

The Infinite, from which comes the impulse that lead us to activity, is not the highest Reason, but higher than reason; not the highest Goodness, but higher than goodness.

Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.

The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality.