The Reason Quotes

That's the reason you want to become a star as an actor, to be able to have more control of your destiny.

It is time, I suggest, to stop the practice of allowing Muslims to serve in the U.S. military. The reason is simple: the more devout a Muslim is, the more of a threat he is to national security.

There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.

Things happen for a reason. We'll see where life takes me from here.

Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonization of Nature of Reason.

Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.

For reasons I do not fully understand, some power is released through setting positive goals that would otherwise remain dormant.

I am a rapper. The reason why I was against the whole rapper title is because I know so many people who want to be rappers and they're not.

Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.

I've got no interest in going over to California to fight that boring git, in a fight that no one's interested in, and that's the reason why he's trying to pimp himself out everywhere.

Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you’ve learned about the grand themes of life.

The reason that viruses are so hard to fight, the reason for example we need a flu virus every year is that they evolve very fast.

Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.

For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing.

For some reason I only crave fruit when I'm in a tropical place - if it's really hot in the summer or if I go to a tropical island for work. But otherwise I really don't crave it.

For some interesting reason, I also like a guy who has a littte bit of a belly. I think that's really cute.

I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time.

L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.

There isn't a definite right and wrong anyway. Sometimes we do what seems wrong, but we have good reasons for doing it, so it's not wrong after all.

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

Emotions are real, just not the reasons behind them.

I feel like I am a celebrity for no reason, like people are resentful I didn't have to play bars for 10 years to get a record deal.

Usually there's no specific reason for loneliness - it's a broad feeling.

When you're playing festivals, you only get a half-hour. It's like a meat market. You don't get to be artistic. You don't get to play music. It's called a showcase for a reason.

Then forget Gabriel. Is there a particular reason you keep biting vampires?" Will touched the dried blood on his wrists, and smiled. "They don't expect it.

I can trust you, Jessie, but you're clearly not well enough to go. Which is unfortunate, since Aloysius always had a weakness for a pretty face." "Even more reason why I should go," said Will.

Unless there was a reason for me to stay.

I do not remember the '70s, for who-knows-what-all reasons.

Life has shown me all too often that there is no rhyme or reason to the cruelty inflicted upon humanity.

One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with the reader.

There are indications that today the intellectuals are coming back to [Albert] Camus. History has given them reason to, with the fall of communism.

I took only twice a time-out, once, when I was hurt, and a second time, when I much felt I was exhausted out of personal reasons.

For whatever reason, I have never separated the technical from the ethical.

It's the same reason why someone has a Web page or why people feel comfortable going on reality TV.

Hey Steve, no offense, but if you couldn't shoot, there would be no reason for you to be alive.

Everybody in the world has an ego. The only difference between us is we have a reason to have an ego.

Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water.

Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.

False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.

Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about that thing himself.

Within the brain's most secret cells, A certain lord chief justice dwells, Of sov'reign power, whom one and all, With common voice we reason call.

I don't mind there being some medievalists around for ornamental purposes, but there is no reason for the State to pay for them.

I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason-but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner.

Why will God's creatures sin against his throne? Can there be such madness in beings gifted with reason's light?

We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.

The reason we tend to support Republicans is they're taking us toward the cliff at only 70 miles per hour miles an hour and the Democrats are taking us 100 miles an hour.

Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.

Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest.