Reason Quotes · Page 226

In my experience, if you go to a hospital for any reason whatsoever, including to read the gas meter, they give you…

— Dave Barry

I have made on occasion posters and things like that for political reasons but not my work.

— Michelle Stuart

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

— Norman Mailer

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite…

— Christopher Hitchens

Authority that is not confirmed by true reason seems weak. Whereas true reason does not need to be confirmed by any authority.

— Johannes Scotus Eriugena

The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.

— Linda Ronstadt

If you ask me, you see, I prefer doing film. The reason I'm doing a sitcom is because it's much more approachable.

— Tommy Wiseau

The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer…

— Albert J. Nock

I'm probably the most loquacious author when it comes to my dedications. The reason is there is some symbolism there. I've been…

— Karen Kingsbury

Someone once said, People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. They forgot one other option: Some…

— Caprice Crane

Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I really came to the conclusion that the reason I'd keep playing was so that I could sit in this interview and…

— David Lee

The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental…

— Dick Wolf

It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons…

— L. Ron Hubbard

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

— Alain Resnais

These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion…

— David Levithan

A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each…

— Mark Twain

On previous occasions when God incarnated on earth, the bliss of recognising Him in the incarnation was vouchsafed only after the physical…

— Sathya Sai Baba

I think I was afraid of being a mother for many reasons. I wanted to be a good mom, and I was…

— Ainsley Earhardt

Anything that happens after I write a song...that's fine with me. It's up to the listener to read into it what they…

— Guy Clark

And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying…

— David Foster Wallace

Have you ever felt so at one with the world, with the universe, with everything that is, that you were overcome with…

— Richard Bach

I don't necessarily have any designs in being in politics for the rest of my life. I don't necessarily think that this…

— Markos Moulitsas

Never lose hope in someone you love. The truth and love conquers all in the end.

— Scooter Braun

For some reason, people think of me as someone who can do anything I want. And I'm not. You know, I need…

— John Landis

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural…

— Steven Spielberg

“Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read.”

— Amit Kalantri

I think we need to find more reasons to unify rather than divide each other.

— T.I

And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.

— Fernando Pessoa

But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.

— Jonathan Coe

There are still recording artists out there doing things for the right reason, but a lot of people seem to be just…

— Biz Markie

I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.

— Mahmoud Darwish

The reason why life is a sleep & dream for most people is because their awareness is caught up with past or…

— Deepak Chopra

If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.

— Marcus Aurelius

There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them.

— Seth Godin

I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

— Andres Serrano

The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.

— Vernon Howard

If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.

— Natalia Kills

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

— T. S. Eliot