Reason Quotes · Page 289

I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.

— Zaha Hadid

There are two types of people: The ones who give you 50 reasons it can't be done ... and the ones who…

— Hoda Kotb

The reason why I'm playing good is because I don't think one second about my free agency.

— Bojan Bogdanovic

I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully.

— Glen Duncan

The left-wing agenda wants us to think that the reason there was a depression was because the government didn't do anything. That's…

— Peter Schiff

Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom.

— Shakti Gawain

Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

— Thomas Browne

Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Iran is also engaged in the fight against ISIL for reasons of its own that include a desire not to see a…

— David Ignatius

One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created.…

— Patrick Collison

He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and…

— Socrates

Hence reason also demands that, since our thoughts cannot all be true because we are not wholly perfect, what truth they do…

— Rene Descartes

The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is…

— Albert Camus

It's a strange thing, this idea that for some reason, if a lot of people like what you're doing, it's therefore not…

— James Corden

“The only way to find the meaning and purpose of your life is to find it in a mystery . . .…

— Jonathan Cahn

Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists. And the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants…

— Colin Powell

A large part of parenting is about managing weariness and motivation. Much of the success of parenting is about avoiding the sins…

— Gary L. Thomas

I started playing bass in my friend's band for some reason. It was just something I did because, well, he asked me…

— Jens Lekman

People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck, especially successful people. As they age and succeed, people feel their…

— Michael Lewis

There is a reason why Nelson Mandela went to Cuba to praise Castro and thank the Cuban people almost as soon as…

— Noam Chomsky

If you talk to anyone involved in business - forget banks and big business - talk to small businesses - do it…

— Jamie Dimon

[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be…

— Anonymous

Was it a risky move? Yes, but at that moment, the reason why I came out is I thought it wasn't going…

— Michael Sam

We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope…

— Dionne Warwick

To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.

— Eminem

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.

— Lou Reed

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of…

— Lyman Abbott

Sometimes people graduate but they don't leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that,…

— Maureen Johnson

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

— Jodie Foster

We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The '50s was the golden age of music all over the world for some crazy, 'X-File'-like reason I can't quite understand.

— Ry Cooder

There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.

— Samuel Barber

Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.

— Karl Pearson

For some strange reason a lot of people in my age demographic don't want to listen to veterans of this sport.

— Maxwell Jacob Friedman

Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.

— Jostein Gaarder

After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.

— Jack Kerouac

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.

— Adam Carolla

I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is…

— Steven Spielberg