The Reason Quotes

The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.

We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.

Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.

The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.

The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free.

While reason is puzzling itself about mystery, faith is turning it to daily bread, and feeding on it thankfully in her heart of hearts.

A lot of the economy is indeed being supplied by goods that are produced offshore. And much of the reason for that is societal.

I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.

The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.

We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason--because it clashes with our own.

Reason is the slave of passion.

That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think .

This is the big reason most humorists fail. Drunks don't read books.

The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.

The reason I became successful is because I touched. I touched my community.

Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.

Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.

We're attracted to bad guys, and we like to follow bad guys, because they do things that we want to do but just don't do, for whatever reasons.

If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side?

Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.

Docility is the observable half of reason.

Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.

Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.

If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?

The Age of Reason was responsible for making more people into infidels than any other book except the Bible.

Trouble, hardship, difficulty, pain, suffering, conflict, tragedy, evil - they're all part of the [Christian] Story. Indeed, the problem of evil is the reason there's any Story at all.

To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.

The first good reason to write a book is to add value to people’s lives.

Retaining our capacity for reason is common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment.

The rice bowl is to me the most valid reason in the world for doing anything. A piece of one's soul to the multitudes in return for rice and wine does not seem to me a sacrilege.

But then again, you know, the pimp in TAXI DRIVER has this reason, given the environment he was living in.

Customers are the reason we open our doors every day, and keep the machines humming all night long. Customers determine what we eat, where we live, whether we stay in business.

The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.

I fell in love for the right reason. I fell in love unconditionally.

Math can explain the reason there's one out of four chance that I'd have blue eyes. But it doesn't explain why me.

He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.

Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it is mostly a cold arithmetician summing up our follies.

Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason.

I don't need a "reason" to be happy. I don't have to consult the future to know how happy I feel now.

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

I dont take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak.

I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.

Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason.

Beside him, making scarcely a sound, walked James, Sirius, Lupin, and Lily, and their presence was his courage, and the reason he was able to keep putting one foot in front of the other.

I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.