The Reason Quotes

Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it.

The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.

The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.

Fear is the most powerful enemy of reason.

The rule of reason is the true sovereign in the American system.

For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.

Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities.

Whatever fells your mind is what you are. So, feel loving and peaceful for no reason at all.

People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

I think first of all you have to be there for the right reason.

It's never much fun at school - it's just dates. Then as you get older, for some reason, you get more interested.

I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it's my duty to be as honest as possible in my art.

Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.

But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.

The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.

Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.

There's a lot of complicated magical reasons why I'm not at the party that are too long and semantic to go into.

People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.

I want to make money, and I would like to have a lot of money, but I still believe that the only reason to write is that somehow it will make something or somebody better.

What I was interested in is the lens organizing my sovereign space. I avoid the term outsider and also exile for the same reason. Outsider implies a kind of nobility.

You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.

If for no other reason than it's just fun to watch people age, and it's fun to watch what happened to '80s hairdos and outfits, and what they look like now.

I do believe that people go to the movies - for one reason or another - they go to the movies to have an experience.

The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!

The multitude . . . have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them. . . . It is not safe to trust to the virtue of any people.

The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite, and for this reason no constitutional shackles can wisely be imposed on the power to which the care of it is committed.

Politkovskaya was a known critic of the administration. For this reason, one cannot rule out the possibility that someone would want to blame the government for the murder.

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.

There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.

And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?

The reason why women grown bad are worse than men is because it is the best that turns to the worst.

There's no reason to trade insults. We have our way of life and they have theirs. I wouldn't live as they do, but disrespect seems pointless. I'm sure there are good people among them.

The latest indication we have is that Amado is experiencing some delay in getting his visa. We understand that and we can accept that as a plausible reason for him not to be here.

I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs.

I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.

You're trying to make music, and then at the end of it you give reasons for everything.

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.

The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.

This kind of knowing you can never tell to anyone. If you want us to survive, you cannot trust a soul'... 'Not for any reason on this earth. You can never tell.

I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.

I came to teaching late - not until my forties - which is one reason why I'm not burned out.

As far as we know, as a species, the only reason we were put on this planet is to help continue life.

Democracy is fine in politics. It should stay there, and we need more of it. But its political virture is no reason to practice it in the garden.

Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason.

Reason necessarily expresses itself through emotions and emotions are healthy only insofar as they are expressions of reason.