Reason Quotes · Page 101

In real life, I'd say that your commitment-phobe/narcissist/bad boy boyfriend is a lost cause, but romance is shelved in fiction for a…

— Sarah MacLean

Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it…

— John Locke

The purpose of meditation is to create focus. It is about focusing your attention on your experience. The reason for focus: it…

— Neale Donald Walsch

There's a long record here of being wrong. There's a good reason for it. There are probably multiple reasons. Certainly proliferation is…

— David Kay

It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and…

— Warren Stephens

“But maybe that isn't possible. Maybe the mind of the majority is always the healthy mind, simply by virtue of its numbers.…

— Stacey Jay

I have every reason, despite the resentment and exasperation, to be proud. I have nothing better to be proud of than being…

— Helmut Kohl

I think [The Outsiders] really forged who I am as an actor, and it's one of the reasons why I keep being…

— Rob Lowe

Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

— Hermann Hesse

Journalism and the questions of journalistic ethics, and why certain stories are put on the air, when, how and for what reasons,…

— Thomas Sadoski

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

— Simone de Beauvoir

The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free.

— Frank Murphy

There are people who are excitable by nature and allow themselves to become angry for the most trivial of reasons. Judo can…

— Kano Jigoro

Apple, iTunes, and streaming services have made the single a more easy thing to access. What that's done has made the album…

— Matt Bellamy

I think it's important to understand that a cartoonist is not drawing for favourable reviews from politicians. What we're trying to do…

— Terry Mosher

If I stunk for some reason, you can always blame it on the character.

— Danny Aiello

Wisdom can see the red, the rose, the stained and sculptured curve of grey, the charcoal scars of fire, and see around…

— Judith Wright

We sometimes hear the argument, 'All the world' thinks this, or does that, given as a reason for our doing likewise; but…

— Hudson Taylor

The reason or motivation you have for making money or creating success is vital.

— T. Harv Eker

The reason the world is in the spot it's in is because North Korea entered into an agreement and then did not…

— Ari Fleischer

The reason why Indian bowling has done exceptionally well in this World Cup is MS Dhoni. When we wrote them off, he…

— V. V. S. Laxman

[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this…

— Plato

I am a control freak, but not when I travel. For some reason when I travel, I am able to surrender more…

— Chelsea Cain

I had about four days of like, 'Pity party, woe is me, it's all over.' Then I did some research and spoke…

— Jack Osbourne

“To prove to an indignant questioner on the spur of the moment that the work I do was useful seemed a thankless…

— A.V. Hill

This job will drive me to drink, and for that reason, I will be eternally grateful.

— W. C. Fields

“I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.”

— George MacDonald Fraser

I was sitting out by my tennis court one day, and I looked up at my house, and it looked like a…

— Demond Wilson

One possible reason why things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

When you're the guy behind the camera, you're aware of the reasons for the compromises or the changes that get made. As…

— Casey Affleck

Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the…

— John Updike

The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read…

— Christina Baldwin

[Photography] ties back into this feeling of wanting to watch things fall and the moment before they break. Fireworks are that way…

— Laurel Nakadate

Part of the reason some Japanese companies have underperformed financially was corporate governance and board structures.

— Jamie Dimon

Nightmares are a strange thing. Your worst fear is sometimes something you enjoy thinking about, for some strange reason. I don't know…

— Ethan Hawke

There's a whole lot of reasons people are supporting [Donald] Trump. Don't misunderstand. And one of those reasons, and it may be…

— Donald Trump

Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and…

— Nathaniel Branden

There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone…

— Jodi Picoult

There is a reason for which we rise daily and see a new day ahead of us. Something good is waiting for…

— Subash Malik

Religion is as harmless as a toddler with a handgun.

— Rock Cowles