Reason Quotes · Page 286

The types of thoughts that you think create a state of mind. The reason you think the thoughts you do results from…

— Frederick Lenz

Guilt is not a reason why you should let go of the person who truly loves you so much.

— Anonymous

Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.

— William Penn

When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed.

— Dejan Stojanovic

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

— Annie Leibovitz

People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life…

— Marco Pierre White

Gentelmen heve ever been more temperate in their religion than common people, as having more reason.

— John Selden

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

— Anna Meredith

All of the plants that we do not consider food that are safe for the human body to digest, we don't eat…

— Homaro Cantu

It was always inevitable that if you get serious trouble in any family then everybody's inclined to look at the head of…

— Max Hastings

Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is…

— Georg Simmel

There are some outstandingly qualified minority coaches, and one of the reasons I spoke out is that the ones I came in…

— Grant Teaff

Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve…

— Archibald Cox

But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good…

— Larry Wall

Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can…

— Anonymous

Man is made for science; he reasons from effects to causes, and from causes to effects; but he does not always reason…

— James Hutton

For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion…

— Albert Camus

There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, He wants me…

— J. I. Packer

One of the reasons to go to South Africa is because we can create great standing sets, both interior and exterior, and…

— Chris Albrecht

CEOs pretty much pick the boards that give them salaries and bonuses. That's one of the reasons why the CEO-to-payment [ratio] has…

— Noam Chomsky

Prada makes really nice bags and then somebody in China makes knockoffs. This is the knockoff version of the mutant world. You…

— Timothy Miller

The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid…

— Robert Kennedy

What's the greatest enemy of Christianity to-day? Frozen meat. In the past only members of the upper classes were thoroughly sceptical, despairing,…

— Aldous Huxley

Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death.

— Terry Goodkind

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I'm here because the reason I get up each morning, needs me as much as I need her." -Jax Stone

— Abbi Glines

For whatever reason, I've always gravitated towards music that feels nostalgic or longing or beautifully tragic.

— Lauv

...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Putting Americans at risk for a political reason I think is wrong and I think it's unfortunate.

— George Pataki

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are…

— Karl Marx

“A paradox is a truth in absolute defiance of the instant powers of logic to communicate it.”

— Raheel Farooq

There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.

— Bill Vaughan

The only reason I'd ever get a sex change operation is to see what it's like to be right all the time.

— Brian Wilson

The reason you do this stuff - comedy, plays, movies - is to be seized by something, to disappear in the service…

— Mike Nichols

There was reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, might devour in turn each one of her children.

— Anonymous

Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.

— Josh Groban

There's a story behind every person. There's a reason why they're the way they are. Think about that before you judge anyone.

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

— Anonymous

It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less…

— John Steinbeck