Reason Quotes · Page 138

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Never underestimate the capacity of noble young men to do incredibly foolish things for perfectly good reasons.

— Jennifer Fallon

“You know, Junpei, everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does.”

— Haruki Murakami

I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.

— John Updike

Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it's not out there is that it's inside us.

— Sonja Lyubomirsky

When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved.

— Frank Arthur Swinnerton

I suppose to a certain degree. London's my favorite place on the planet and the reason for that is its fantastic diversity.

— Douglas Booth

The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

— George Carlin

There are sayings and mantras that sometimes occur in filmmaking discussions, and one of them is that sometimes filmmaking is an olive…

— Debra Granik

... out here I had been putting what little money I had in Ocean Frontage, for the sole reason that there was…

— Will Rogers

The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation.…

— Immanuel Kant

Understand that thoughts are thoughts. If they are unreasonable, reason with them, even if you have no reason left. You are the…

— Matt Haig

One of the reasons I work serially, but also one of the reasons that I try to claim space in painting, is…

— Cynthia Daignault

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment; of Reformation; of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire.…

— Clive Barker

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees…

— Gautama Buddha

Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would…

— George Washington

Let’s be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death, and should scare…

— Charlton Heston

Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible though very unlikely that our whole world is controlled…

— Jerry A. Coyne

I was able to excite and engage people who previously hadn't been involved in politics, and part of the reason that I…

— Barack Obama

The reason I keep talking about a wife and saying the word 'wife' on stage is because it seems a funny word…

— Stephen Merchant

There's a reason why the Foo Fighters don't blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for…

— Dave Grohl

My reason [for making my own paint] is to force a real-time experience of the work. Most work today is experienced by…

— Ryan McGinness

“I guess I'm not a very spiritual person. I don't think things always 'happen for a reason,' everything must be 'God's way,'…

— Jessica Topper

I think the reason I'm an actor is the joy I find from escaping and going to be somebody else. That's what…

— John Glover

Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.

— Rick Springfield

I always believe when your political opponents are committing suicide, there's no reason to murder them.

— John Boehner

Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?

— William Cowper

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle

— George Washington

One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for…

— Steven Seagal

Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.

— William Faulkner

Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case

— John Maynard Keynes

Don’t make excuses for why you can’t get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.

— Ralph Marston

Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

— Tom Sizemore

General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I just love to work and spend time with my family. And that's the reason I don't look at the length of…

— Boman Irani

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

— William Shenstone

In general, obsolete technology is obsolete for a reason. Monocles are no exception.

— Neil Blumenthal

To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason.

— Paul Fussell

What matters in judging a person is not what he said or did but the reason why.

— Boboniu