The Reason Quotes

People get so attached to a position which they identify themselves with that they just spurt it out, but they can't really give you a viable reason why they feel that way.

Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason.

I am not a hugely religious person, but I believe that there is a oneness with everything. And because there is this oneness, it is possible that my mother is the principal reason for my life.

The main reason for choosing a project is not really the renown of the director that's making the project. I feel like it's the fact of an actor to constantly want to do different things.

The reason I am thinking so far in advance is because school is terribly lonely. I think I've said that before, but it's getting harder every day.

Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly.

There's no reason to stop. Who knows what's around the bend? To participate, meet new people. It's mostly other musicians and people like you, or anybody I meet who's in this, that keeps me going.

The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.

Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

The reason I am so passionately committed to the psychedelic thing is because I see it as radical, and if this is not the moment for radical solutions, what is?

Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.

I will stay at Arsenal forever. There will be no transfer for me. I love London. I've got a house there, I'm happy there and I don't see any reason to ever leave the club.

Just because we don't see a reason for evil and suffering doesn't mean there's not a reason for it.

My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung.

I've come to realize that the thing in life that's important, the reason we're all here, is to love and do well for each other.

I actually don't miss modeling and I think the reason why is because of America's Next Top Model.

Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

A bearer of news of death appears to himself as very important. His feeling - even against all reason - makes him a messenger from the realm of the dead.

Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.

Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away.

The reason the Democrats are so intent on passing a stem-cell bill is they're depending on the research to grow themselves a spine.

My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

The reason life is so strange is that so often people have no choice.

My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company.

I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.

The main reason for people's lack of success is their willingness to give up what they want most of all, for what they want right now!

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.

Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in this mortal world.

The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.

Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.

Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option.

Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.

There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.

To ask, 'How do you do it?' is already starting off on the wrong foot. When reaching for the stars, there does not have to be a 'how' if there is a big enough 'why'.

Man was created to glorify God. Now, that may encompass other things which God has planned for each man, but essentially, man was created to glorify God.

If reason ruled the world would history even exist?

Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.

When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed.

The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.

Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world gone mad without him.

If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.

For a God that created everything, it is mystifying why he created so much competition.

I'll be damned if I apologize for the choices I've made. They were hard decisions, but I had good reasons for making them.

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.