Reason Quotes · Page 180

Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed.

— Jake Heggie

A demon, in a way, is a test of your faith. Because if you're doing God's work, there's no reason for any…

— Troy Polamalu

You need to quickly recognize when and why you're being spooned bullshit. That happens very often, but it happens for a reason.

— David Weigel

Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.

— L. Frank Baum

Sometimes you have to set the angle within the match, but you gotta give a reason for one guy to be loved…

— The Undertaker

Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.

— Alexander Pope

“Reason without emotion is often a mask for cruelty; emotion without reason can allow people to excuse all sorts of excesses.”

— Nalini Singh

There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two…

— Peter Cushing

There's one reason why [Presidents' Day] is a holiday. It had nothing to do with our country deciding that we wanted to…

— Rush Limbaugh

The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be…

— Douglas Rushkoff

The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would…

— Paul Ryan

Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to…

— Ayn Rand

Too many people think that finding the reason God placed us here on earth will come in one assignment with a big…

— Lysa TerKeurst

What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with…

— Robert E. Lee

What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by…

— Theodor Herzl

It is essential to understand this point thoroughly: that the thing-in-itself, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral, is not only unknowable-it does not…

— Alan Watts

Tell you what," I said. "After the testing after the Demon Days, when things settle down -" "Things won't settle down." "-…

— Rick Riordan

Everybody is afraid of death for the simple reason that we have not tasted of life yet. The man who knows what…

— Rajneesh

How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of…

— Isaac Asimov

The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe,…

— Milan Kundera

Geneva has a long history of hosting international organizations, which is part of the reason why CERN is here. CERN has signed…

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer

There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when…

— Wendell Berry

I am interested in the creativity of the criminal attitude because I recognize in it the existence of a special condition of…

— Joseph Beuys

The reason God can't use you more than He wants to may well be that you are not prepared.

— Howard G. Hendricks

All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.

— Pierre Charron

God may do something silly at any time, because, like any lover, God does not reason. God is drunk with love.

— Ernesto Cardenal

The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify…

— Michel Gondry

There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they…

— Peter Drucker

Your life may not be full with reasons to be happy, but your life itself is the reason to be happy.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Always remember that no matter how useless you feel, you are someones reason to smile.

— Anonymous

I used to really like Method Man and Redman for some reason. And Fabolous. A lot of New York rappers, too. Cam'ron.…

— Ski Mask the Slump God

Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord, and let…

— Clare of Assisi

The reason I can give wonder is that I feel wonder about the world: the stars, a tree, my body - everything.

— Doug Henning

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the…

— Blaise Pascal

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

— Anne Lamott

If God takes someone out of your life he did it for a reason, stop looking back trying to put them back…

— Anonymous

The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach

— Bobby Knight

Congressmen are like diapers - You need to change them often, and for the same reason

— Pete McCloskey

Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.

— Val Kilmer