Reason Quotes · Page 153

Kobe was, other than my parents, he was the reason why I played sports. Just his mindset, the Mamba mentality.

— George Kittle

Tea is certainly as much of a social drink as coffee, and more domestic, for the reason that the teacup hours are…

— Arthur Gray

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

— Ashley Montagu

The reason for your entire salvation, the design behind your deliverance, the purpose for which God chose you in the first place…

— Kevin DeYoung

My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.

— Damien Chazelle

The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life…

— James D'arcy

I see opportunities in all my businesses. And the reason is simple. We thrive on countries that are urbanizing.

— Louis R. Chenevert

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for…

— Walter Kirn

I very rarely wear suits, and only make one or two per season, so it's about wanting exceptional clothes that don't feel…

— Yigal Azrouel

It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I chose to start my world tour in Israel for a very specific and important reason. As you know, the Middle East…

— Madonna Ciccone

I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In the end, the…

— Mario Batali

These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner…

— Sigmund Freud

You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached,…

— John Henry Newman

There is no reason why T-Mobile can't be successful on its own and the only real reason AT&T would want to own…

— Martin Cooper

Why does anyone commit murder?' he asked in a low voice. 'I-'I blinked.'How should I know?' 'Three reasons,' Christopher said. He held…

— Meg Cabot

A lot of people in the movie industry tend to run and hide from it like ostriches. Movie industry people are definitely…

— Madeleine Stowe

The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake…

— Stephen Daldry

Being a victim doesn't take much. There are built-in excuses for failure. Built-in excuses for being miserable. Built-in excuses for being angry…

— Rush Limbaugh

I also came to see that liberalism's superficial optimism concerning human nature caused it to overlook the fact that reason is darkened…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Pablito, the Bible was meant to be a bridge, not a wedge. It's the greatest love story ever told, about God's enduring…

— Alex Sanchez

Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they…

— Luis Walter Alvarez

I grew up loving action movies and films that were set in supernatural, unimaginable places. So I take being a woman in…

— Zoe Saldana

Asylum is for people fleeing persecution, not those searching for a better job. Yet our broken system - with its debilitating court…

— Kirstjen Nielsen

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

— Orrin Hatch

“Maybe I’m strange and perverse, but I’ve always thought there was something sexy about a compelling argument.”

— Therese Doucet

The reason he [Duke Kahanamouku] didn't like me was that I liked him too much.

— Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.

— Yair Lapid

“There is no position outside of reason where you can stand and lecture about reason and pass judgment on reason.”

— J.M. Coetzee

I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.

— Liev Schreiber

The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.

— Amartya Sen

The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful.

— Brian Tracy

Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something…

— Oscar Niemeyer

nothing is stronger or better founded than the sentiments for which we can give no reason.

— Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

'Hemlock' is so intelligently written and brilliantly put together. Every detail in the show is there for a reason, and it fascinates…

— Madeline Brewer

Those who feel a little insecure about our border have some reason to feel that way.

— John Cornyn

The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is…

— Ayn Rand

Dhikr is the reason for the life of the heart and leaving it is the reason for its death.

— Ahmad ibn Ajiba

“Sometimes, however, there is more than hope. Sometimes there is reason.”

— Elizabeth Haydon

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe