Reason Quotes · Page 164

I could have been a lot more famous and played leading men and everything. For whatever reason, I didn't go for it.

— Harry Dean Stanton

You would be better off having nobody than the wrong somebody. (On marrying for the wrong reasons.)

— Joyce Meyer

Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask.

— Michael Weston

“There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.”

— Sam Harris

I will do everything to make sure you never have reason again to vote for extremes.

— Emmanuel Macron

I'm drawn to making movies about contemporary life. The reason I choose institutions is because they provide a limit, a boundary.

— Frederick Wiseman

When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them.

— Margaret Millar

The truth isn't a thing of fact or reason. It is simply what everyone agrees on.

— Gregory Maguire

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order…

— Sydney J. Harris

The main reason I have joined Everton is not to try to help my England ambitions - that will come if I…

— Gareth Barry

I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but…

— Steven Adler

What does God mean to me? I guess I was made the way I am for some reason, and I've been able…

— Michael Phelps

I think the reason why people love 'Downton Abbey' is because all the characters are given the same weight. Some are nice,…

— Julian Fellowes

I know a lot of people at some point in their business careers decide they'll just cash in and do something else,…

— Fred DeLuca

Democracy is fine in politics. It should stay there, and we need more of it. But its political virture is no reason…

— Allen Lacy

The CEO of The Cheesecake Factory is now warning that Obamacare will be very costly. Hey, The Cheesecake Factory is one of…

— Jay Leno

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing…

— Barbara Jordan

For my parents it was all about getting a deal, my dad came to America and he heard of this concept of…

— Aasif Mandvi

I’m not a sociopath or a freak (although I don’t suppose people who are sociopaths or freaks self-identify as such); I just…

— Peter Cameron

Herman slipped his hand into mine, and I thought, An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good…

— Nicole Krauss

As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method in investment is to put fairly large sums…

— John Maynard Keynes

She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to…

— Steven Galloway

What is the big deal about Eminem? Since when is offensive language a reason for being unpopular? I like the fact that…

— Madonna Ciccone

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't…

— Kathryn Bigelow

Going back because it's what I did and I was sort of all right at it is not a good reason to…

— Guy Martin

Let your heart beat for music. Don't be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for…

— Jennifer Lee

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

— Anonymous

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

— John Tillotson

Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.

— Sam Kinison

Everything happens for a reason. So don't be surprised when I punch you in the face... remember, I HAD A REASON!!

— Nishan Panwar

You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out.

— Scarlett Johansson

It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

You never know how things will work out. After all the bad reasons in the world, some good came out.

— John Lydon

The only reason I have any success at all in my career is because of the Internet.

— Colleen Ballinger

Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons.

— Charles Bukowski

If I lose touch with that... the reason why I act... then I'll leave it all. I don't do it for fame…

— Ray Fearon

You want sweet dreams, lose the attitude and you might find I'll give you reason to have them.

— Kristen Ashley

The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave…

— Adlai E. Stevenson

The only reason we don’t have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can’t have them.

— Tony Robbins

Now Jesus, he don't like killing, no matter what the reason is for, and your flag decal won't get you into heaven…

— John Prine