Reason Quotes · Page 205

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry

— Paul Muldoon

You have to attach some sort of emotional reason to any big goal you're after, or you will give up.

— Rachel Hollis

Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.

— Herbie Hancock

One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The main reason for the armed resistance is the American military presence.

— Muqtada al Sadr

Love is stupid. It has nothing to do with reason. You love whomever you love.

— Kristin Cashore

“It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.”

— Winston Churchill

The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.

— Anonymous

The last reason I want to be hired is because of my gender. I want to be hired because you trust me,…

— Becky Hammon

Are terrorists going to be deterred - are terrorists going to be scared if we react violently? No. They love it. That's…

— Howard Zinn

'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps…

— Jason Reitman

Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement…

— Edward Snowden

'Educate, don't hate.' That's my motto. The reason why there's so much pushback against diversity and against minority communities is because people…

— Rain Dove

The diffusion of information and the arraignment of all abuses at the bar of public reason, I deem [one of] the essential…

— Thomas Jefferson

If you look at the history of our company, we don't do a lot of acquisition. The reason is, we need to…

— Bobby Kotick

Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that…

— Adam Duritz

So much of the way a singer physically damages their voice could be caused by stress or nerves. I would never be…

— Brandi Carlile

“I’ve often wondered how the term “'New Atheism”' gained such currency. It is a misnomer. There is nothing new about nonbelief. All…

— Jeffrey Tayler

You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot…

— Blaise Pascal

I think it's very important that we protect marriage as an institution between a man and a woman. I proposed a constitutional…

— George W. Bush

“Such contentedness and change of view in regard to every kind of life does the infusion of reason bring about. When Alexander…

— Plutarch

I have always seen the Clinton Foundation - yes, they do a lot of charitable good works. But by my lights, the…

— Jonah Goldberg

If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't clear to you, there's a very…

— Sean Young

Something special can happen late at night in a jazz club. As the crowd thins, the musicians intuitively sense that those few…

— Patricia Barber

My husband and I were very in love, and I had no reason to suspect that his interests lay anywhere else.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.

— Carl Jung

“The mind delivers logic and reason, but the heart is where faith resides.”

— Adam Braun

For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look…

— Chogyam Trungpa

God gave me these things for a reason, not just talent on the field, but other opportunities to be a light to…

— Trevor Lawrence

A radical is he who has no sense...fights without reason...I have a reason. I am authentic. Yes, that's what I am.

— Fela Kuti

My grandfather was a history teacher, one reason the subject has been an integral part of my life.

— Sudha Murty

Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed.

— Eric Weiner

If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching…

— Dakota Fanning

Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.

— Philippa Gregory

We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.

— Alan Moore

Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason.

— Anonymous

If people can keep track of all the celebrity gossip, there's no reason we can't also assimilate the key concepts of economic…

— Pedro Reyes

“I didn’t say you’re a bad person. I just don’t like being a foregone conclusion for the sole reason of having a…

— jamie mcguire

“Sometimes, God doesn’t make things happen at a sudden, but for a reason!”

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Wayne's done way more for my career than Jay-Z. Wayne is the reason I'm here.

— Drake