Reason Quotes · Page 17

I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones.

— Deanna Raybourn

Is a reason nesessary? I don't know why you would kill someone. But as for saving someone... A logical mind isn't needed,…

— Gosho Aoyama

Achieving the state of SABLE is not, as many people who live with these knitters believe, a reason to stop buying yarn,…

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.

— Ellen Glasgow

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they…

— Haruki Murakami

I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of…

— Adam Ant

The wild black scavengers of the skies laid their eggs in season and lovingly fed their young. They soared high over prairies…

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to…

— Eleanor Smeal

The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about…

— Anne Lamott

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

Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to…

— Walter Kirn

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science…

— Stephen Hawking

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place…

— William Blake

Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers.

— Ayn Rand

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

— Alastair Campbell

I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can…

— Clive Barker

Remember that every path walked is walked for a reason, and every day is full of blessings no matter how BIG or…

— Anmol Andore

[Erwin Rommel] explained why in short words, what the two generals' message and then he explained his position and he gave some…

— Manfred Rommel

Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case

— John Maynard Keynes

I don't see any reason to discriminate against homosexuals.

— Yitzhak Rabin

The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.

— Leslie Nielsen

AI2 was born from a desire to create a system that could truly reason about knowledge, rather than just offer up what…

— Paul Allen

[9/11] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it.

— Edward Said