The Reason Quotes

I've decided to do it, for the pure and simple reason that I just think it's the right thing to do.

It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more.

The only reason I think I would marry a foreigner would be to have kids with weird accents.

There's a reason you never see anyone's house with a Beware of Cat sign. Because they're not even worth mentioning.

Vomit and feces are two reason I have decided not to procreate.

It's also a terrible kind of sentiment [ reality TV] for children and for people. It makes people feel like they all want to be famous for no reason.

I haven't a clue why I've lasted so long. There's no reason. There are many people more talented than me. I think it's luck.

The chief characteristics of the [liberal] attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather than faith.

People like you are the reason People like me need medication.

I didn't leave Africa, I left Nigeria, and for political reasons. But ... I've never, never left Africa, and I certainly never left what it means to be Ibo. That is something you carry with you.

One of the many reasons why I love stand-up so much is when you're performing, you get instant feedback. You know if stuff is working right away.

I do podcasts for the same reasons I do stand-up comedy. I love it, and I don't care if anybody else gets it.

The reason I had unfaithfulness in one of my marriages is because I was too patriotic.

The whole reason we organize grassroots is, we think any politician that gets elected needs to be held accountable 365 days a year.

For some reason, I find that in the course of my career I've worked with more women than most men have.

It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs.

The reason I make movies now has a lot to do with having seen Star Wars when I was seven years old. That's the formative movie-going experience of my life.

I think you have to remember to do things for the right reason. Do the right thing, so you can be happy with all your decisions and happy with how spent time in the world.

I don't like the grilled onions for some reason. I like regular, crispy, stinky onions.

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other.

Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.

The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read is that writing itself is the gift.

I've always been heavily engaged with my fans on the internet from day one. That connection's one of the reasons why I've been able to enjoy such longevity in my career.

I think the main reason a lot of child stars don't make it is that it's hard to see someone as cute and then all of a sudden see them as having more depth.

The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.

If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.

There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people.

Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!

My parents were great parents, but for some bizarre reason they allowed me to watch whatever I wanted on TV, we had cable. And I constantly watched horror movies.

Reason lives on the systematization of the past, but Faith is the promise of the future.

There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad.

It's not fair to use movies that weren't creatively successful as a reason why something won't work.

I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy.

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look.

The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.

I believe strongly in 'giving while living.' I see little reason to delay giving when so much good can be achieved through supporting worthwhile causes today.

There has to be a reason and objective (to air strikes). What does it do to move the effort down the road for a political conversation?

(The) chain of command has failed over the years, obviously, for a lot of reasons.

The reason that people in the intellectual community argue that football is dangerous is because there's now a large swath of society that has no relationship to physicality or potential violence.

You can't go into the office and be a jerk. You can't yell at your kids or your wife or your husband for no reason. That makes you a terrible person.

Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts.

My work doesn't have the same rules as, say, Andy [Warhol]'s work. But it's gathered together for the simple reason that we all worked with the images and objects around us.

It just seems like, you agree to have a certain personality or something. For no reason. Just to make things easier for everyone. But when you think about it, I mean, how do you know it's even you?

When there is suffering, we look for a reason. That reason is easiest found within oneself.

People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things.

The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.

I'm one of those people that thinks things happen for a reason, and you just have to look for the reason.

At certain points if your life, you like doing more. I'm not sure what causes it or for what reasons; you just do it.