Reason Quotes · Page 158

It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.

— Jules Verne

The reason why people give up so fast is because they tend to look at how far they still have to go,…

— Anonymous

The center of salvation is the Cross of Jesus, and the reason it is so easy to obtain salvation is because it…

— Oswald Chambers

Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others.

— L. Ron Hubbard

I am quite content with my work in Malayalam cinema, and so there was never any reason to look outside for opportunities.

— Parvathy

The people around me is the only reason why I survive: Bob Cook and DeWayne Zinkin.

— Luke Rockhold

Caleb could be so testy for no known reason. At times, it was like dating a woman with irritable bowel syndrome. Or…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I don't ask my wife to face Michael Holding, so there's no reason why I should be changing nappies

— Ian Botham

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know?…

— Immanuel Kant

I stay patient. I don't go out there and try to set a course record. That's probably one of my strengths and…

— Annika Sorenstam

One reason I like to highlight reading is, reading is the beginnings of the ability to be a good student. And if…

— George W. Bush

These arguments on each side (and many more might be produced) are so plausible, that I am apt to suspect, they may,…

— David Hume

Women, as the minority, have to prove their worth all the time. That's the reason we tend to over-prepare, over-study, over-anticipate. I…

— Christine Lagarde

The short answer to 'Why do you write' is - I suppose I write for some of the same reasons I read:…

— Margaret Atwood

There's obviously more of us than there is men, so that's why its important that you feel like its someone you want…

— Gabrielle Dennis

I have a lot of photos of my grandparents - they're my heroes, even though they've passed away. They were always happy,…

— Colleen Ballinger

I think that a lot of men, especially once they're married, feel like their girl is just who she is, so don't…

— Andrew Dice Clay

I've never done a lead role in a film this big [like Doctor Strange], in a franchise this big. One of the…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

If to break loose from the bounds of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment which keeps us from…

— John Locke

There are two kinds of comprehensive doctrines, religious and secular. Those of religious faith will say I give a veiled argument for…

— John Rawls

When I was a film critic, the reason I kind of found it disenchanting was because the things that I wanted to…

— Chuck Klosterman

My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease, Feeding on that which doth preserve the…

— William Shakespeare

First, let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered... . Give men your ear,…

— Christopher Paolini

I've always been passionately in love with movies, to such a degree that even as a young person of about nineteen or…

— Jonathan Lethem

The main reason for people's lack of success is their willingness to give up what they want most of all, for what…

— Zig Ziglar

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates…

— Oscar Wilde

The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other,…

— Henry Miller

It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

— Maurice Barres

The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.

— Connie Willis

I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love.

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.

— Neko Case

“[B]ut pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable.”

— Milan Kundera

The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

Being oneself is completely beyond all motivation. You cannot be yourself for some reason. You are yourself, and no reason is needed.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

There are a lot more women drummers now than there used to be, and I'd like to think that I'm part of…

— Gina Schock

Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.

— Sri Aurobindo

Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.

— Robert McKee

Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren't looking!

— Billy Sunday

I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.

— Fedor Emelianenko

Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.

— Jackson Browne