An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason. — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It's that we often create what we… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I just don't want to give anybody a reason to label me as something I'm not. — Marcus Smart Copy Share Image
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in… — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors. — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
To be honest, from England Under-16s, through the 17s and 18s, really all the way through my youth career, I played at… — Jack Rodwell Copy Share Image
If I were to be responsible for guiding souls, I would urge everyone to be aware of God's constant presence, if for… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I think of poetry as a very inclusive term. Still, it's interesting that people want to make the distinction. I love the… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him,… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“Faith and reason are not, as many seem to be arguing today, mutually exclusive. They never have been. The letter to the… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
As Christians, we have an additional reason to love and serve the poor; for in them we see the face and the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
But when you come right down to it, the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity.… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I think that 'Mr. Show' was a huge influence on me. It was literally the reason I started doing comedy, because I… — Scott Aukerman Copy Share Image
A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well upon the nature of man; will profoundly… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore...unlike the mediocre, intrepid… — Ferdinand Magellan Copy Share Image
Some cynical people may see that the only reason I'm doing something more mainstream is part of a strategy to become more… — Ben Drew Copy Share Image
“That is the trouble...You are a crowd of bits of boys all in the thing for what you will get. Demands, you… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
A Seed for Contemplation: Creative people who cherish the gift of life often slip into the secret chambers of the creative mind.… — Harold Klemp Copy Share Image
The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Men (people) are rarely aware of the real reasons which motivate their actions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our situation is more psychological than people will admit. Black kids kill Black kids for the same reason cops do. They see… — David Banner Copy Share Image
Everything happens for a reason… Figuring out the truth behind and accepting it is the hard part! — Kevin978 Copy Share Image
No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The whole reason I do what I do, both in music and acting, is to make people feel something, to really relate… — Chandler Riggs Copy Share Image
We need one another. There's no reason to judge. People are more fragile than you could possibly imagine. — Jamie Tworkowski Copy Share Image
Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
I'm kind of unlucky in love and I have, for some reason, always fallen for the straight guy. — Calum Scott Copy Share Image
THINGS HAPPEN FOR A REASON... they really do. You may not understand it at the moment, but in time it will all… — Punkinhead Abhishek Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that the Ramones were so unique and original was that they were four original, unique people. — Tommy Ramone Copy Share Image
One of reasons I was able to go to university was because of the sacrifices my family made. — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Sometimes you just need a good cry. even if you don't know the reason why you're crying. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love 'Jack' as one of my creations and would never want to change it from what it was supposed to be.… — Genndy Tartakovsky Copy Share Image
