The Reason Quotes

Kant attempted to work out a view of religion and religious belief according to which existing religions could be brought into harmony with modernity, science and reason.

Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt.

Not only our moral life, but even our use of theoretical reason - on which we rely in rationally inquiring into nature - presupposes that we are free.

rules exist for a reason. Rules exist because when people don't follow them, people get hurt.

What are they after?” Kat asked. “Hard to say,” Hale said; again, he eyed the room. “Who is that?” Macey asked. “The reason I wasn’t flirting with you,” Hale told her.

I believe I got Lyme disease for a reason and if that is to help bring awareness, that is my mission and I will do the best that I can to do that.

When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.

Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.

I was always depressed growing up. There wasnt a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot; and that was how I dealt with it.

Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.

We dream primarily the same way that we have consciousness of the world for the same reason. Basically, that our brains evolve to simulate reality and to control what's happening around us.

I'd love to do a costume drama movie. For no other reason, except that it sounds fun to me.

I also don't believe that "everything happens for a reason," which is in a similar category of world-views.

I like violence to be upsetting. The only reason to do it subtley is if doing it subtley makes it more effective somehow.

If you get into multicultural sort of casting for no other reason than to diversify, then it seems false.

I don't think it's a coincidence this happened. God does things for a reason ... It's a good message for back home.

I cannot believe the volume of famous people I run into in my life, and that's part of the reason I love diary format.

My work comes first, reasons for it follow.

The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold

We've sent a man to the moon and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week but for some reason nobody's ever done it.

The reason we're here today is because years ago God broke Reggie Joiner's heart over the state of children.

It makes me feel like a woman. It makes me feel that all the things about my body are suddenly there for a reason. It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside you is amazing.

For whatever reason, I don't know why, but Cambodians learned something in their suffering and their struggle that we have lost touch with.

It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.

The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.

Terror collided violently with reason.

Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all.

There’s a reason I hate jigsaw puzzles. I don’t have the patience to find all the border pieces, especially when they’re all the same shade of gray.

For some reason our lives were marked by summers. . . . Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when we all had our birthdays, when really important things happened

Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be expected to produce uniformity of effect.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

In my experience, you get a job for a reason. Your work life happens for a reason.

There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.

Similarly, I think I'm lucky that I've never had a crisis about whether the only reason I'm successful is because I'm crazy hot. It's not something that crosses my mind.

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

I try to listen to stuff that makes me happy for other reasons, rather than being musically inspiring.

There's two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. Will Rogers The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at.

When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.

One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised

Janice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry; I was not so sure about the reason part.

You are going to love some of your characters because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason.

I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer.

Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.

Im not the voice of reason; Im more the guy using these offensive topics as fodder to raise tension in a joke.

I try to retire jokes as soon as I can once I put them on an album. But I can't think of anything I just stopped doing for no reason.

The reason why Donald Trump does have a very strong base of popularity is he's an authentic person and not necessarily a politician.

Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that it is not worth while to bribe them.

No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others.

Researchers warn us against walking out on married life without a dang good reason.

As for performing live, I just never imagined how it would work out; for good reason, because it doesn't just work out - not the way you think it will. It's a chance that you take.