Reason Quotes · Page 145

You just have to stick to it beyond all reason and all sanity; you just keep at it. You have to believe…

— Carol Channing

I don't think anyone enjoys raising money, but for some reason I seem to have a knack.

— Louis Susman

Strong reasons make strong actions let us go If you say ay, the king will not say no.

— William Shakespeare

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

— Jack Prelutsky

Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.

— Eric Allin Cornell

There is no reason not to be motivated. You cannot always be the best. But you can do your best.

— Sebastian Vettel

Within reason, I can write what I like and spend as long doing it as is necessary. That is a luxury beyond…

— Robert Harris

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

— Margaret Atwood

Those who use the Bible as a reference for moral behavior are simply cherry-picking those teachings, such as the Golden Rule, that…

— Victor J. Stenger

I went there and helped him shuffle pictures of people, and one of the agents asked me if I was interested in…

— Josh Duhamel

Unemployment in America today is too high. And part of the reason, unfortunately, is that many companies cannot fill the high-skilled jobs…

— Michael Bloomberg

The reason that attacks by American terrorists who are not jihadist militants are sometimes not called 'terrorism' is, in part, because in…

— Peter Bergen

The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate…

— Anonymous

The main reason guys will never admit to having even the teeniest clue about what women really want is because if they…

— Barbara Graham

The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete…

— Yves Tanguy

All the above is, of course, a gross simplification. There are deeper reasons to travel - itches and tickles on the underbelly…

— Jeff Greenwald

I think that one not only has to make demands on the established group, but one also has to make demands on…

— Norbert Elias

The reason I wouldn't dare to write a Western is simply because that seems to be so much a part of American…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

When I get nervous, I go to the library and hang around. The libraries are filled with people who are nervous. You…

— Anonymous

“Could error arise from a true demonstration, and falsehood proceed from duly verified authority? In no domain could this easily happen, and…

— Antonin Sertillanges

That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and…

— Joseph Warren

Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below,…

— Saint Basil

I think it's interesting playing characters who are flawed and make mistakes because we all have - no one's just one thing…

— Alexandra Daddario

Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol'…

— David Foster Wallace

We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason.

— Charles Caleb Colton

I have tremendous faith in God that all things happen for a reason, even if we don't understand.

— Terri Irwin

I think the reason Jesus is so popular, just on a celebrity level, is that he died at the peak of his…

— Marc Maron

I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.

— Thomas Browne

Everyone has their own reason for waking up in the morning. Mine is you.

— Anonymous

Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do…

— Richard Schmid

The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it…

— Anonymous

[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Don't give people a reason to blame you always and never blame yourself for everything you do. You can't always be wrong.

— Terry Mark

“Reason shows us there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

— Seneca

You're working yourself till late at night, and sleeping crazy with deadlines - you're doing it for a reason.

— Gary Kraftsow

Men always have their reasons. But the fact is that they always wind up leaving.

— Paulo Coelho

Learning. It's really the primary reason behind everything I do. Programming, entrepreneuring, writing.

— Derek Sivers

Vee never needed a reason to do something stupid. Sad thing was, most of the time I didn't either.

— Becca Fitzpatrick

There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.

— Brian Jacques

True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason.

— Dalai Lama