Reason Quotes · Page 210

Reality is rarely what we imagine. Great and noble things do not always happen for great and noble reasons.

— Tracy Thompson

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

— Khaled Hosseini

Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.

— Francesco Guicciardini

The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through…

— Bernard Gilpin

Willie Nelson's the one who told me the reason it costs so much to get divorced is because it's worth it.

— Merle Haggard

I don't see any reason why young women shouldn't relate to me and have that connection with my music.

— Jade Bird

For some reason I didn't expect it to be so food centric in the south of Sweden.

— Andi Oliver

Forget all the reasons it won't work and believe in the one reason why it will.

— Anonymous

More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can…

— Simon Sinek

As humans our hangups seem to shape our interaction with the world around us. They are often the source of our intolerance…

— Bryan Konietzko

The grand jury process is secretive for a reason, to protect the safety and anonymity of all the grand jurors, witnesses, and…

— Daniel Cameron

I look forward to 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' every year because the format of the show is really nice - celebrities coming in…

— Remo D'Souza

I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. I see no reason for painting but that.…

— Andrew Wyeth

I haven't the stature to critique one of our literature's great novels, Tobias; and I'm not one of those who believe The…

— Norman Lock

One of the things I encourage my athletes to do, is to cook with fish because it's really, really, really light and…

— Colin Jackson

Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the…

— Marcus Aurelius

People are trying to build a society where they can talk across the aisle so to speak, and have civil discourse. At…

— Daniel Levitin

Occasionally, on screen, Barbara [Stanwyck] had a wary, watchful quality about her that I've noticed in other people who had bad childhoods;…

— Robert Wagner

I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or…

— Ratan Tata

If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to…

— Charles Dickens

Because I had goodwill for all, I thought all were my friends. And then I learned of treachery, that some preferred my…

— Vanna Bonta

“Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils,…

— Ayn Rand

Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually…

— John Green

Art thou in misery, brother? Then I pray Be comforted. Thy grief shall pass away. Art thou elated? Ah, be not too…

— Paul Hamilton Hayne

You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.

— Melissa Bank

Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different reason: It gives them something…

— Richard Dawkins

I'm a believer in karma, and I'm also a believer that things happen for a reason.

— Bill Goldberg

In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.

— Yakov Smirnoff

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy…

— Daniel Kahneman

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Unshakable faith is only that which can face reason in all human epochs.

— Allan Kardec

Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines... or other new beginnings.

— Amby Burfoot

The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.

— John Stott

I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in…

— Howard Gardner

I think one reason I really like women and like working with women is because of my sisters.

— Michael Keaton

When someone wants something, they must know why they are fighting. This is the only reason to seek a reward.

— Paulo Coelho

Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.

— Thomas Jefferson

Business fits me best. The only reason I went into modeling originally was to help out my family, because I knew that…

— Beverly Johnson

“Sometimes the only reason for us to be somewhere else is to see things from a different perspective.”

— Leila Summers

Most of the time when couples argue, it’s not really about the thing they’re fighting about; there’s a deeper reason why they’re…

— Lisa Kleypas