Reason Quotes · Page 206

Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.

— Oswald Chambers

Aubrey's voice when he answered was soft. "I'm one of the reasons they wouldn't dare.

— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Be it flute, piano or any instrument, there would always be a reason to bring in the particular feel into a song.

— M. Jayachandran

Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best.

— Jerry Pournelle

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

— Mark Twain

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

— Walter Bagehot

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of…

— William Penn

We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I'd say is stimulus infrastructure spending is not instant jobs. I think the real reason the president [Donald Trump] wants to do…

— Paul Ryan

Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat…

— William Shakespeare

Ruby, give me one reason why we can’t be together, and I’ll give you a hundred why we can. We can go…

— Alexandra Bracken

Sometimes, as we practice jnana yoga, we feel that life has no meaning, no purpose. We feel that there is no reason…

— Frederick Lenz

I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is…

— Donald Miller

Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can…

— Francis Schaeffer

I consider myself a reasonable man. As such, I tend to expect others to behave with a modicum of reason and common…

— Peter Horton

I think that women are often lumped into categories - single gals, or soccer moms, or career women, or women of a…

— Elizabeth Heyert

For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not…

— Agatha Christie

Some sleep too much...there must be an excellent reason for the injunction to retire and arise early. ...You will profit by this…

— Joe J. Christensen

A critic may reject some miracle stories as legendary, and not others, with no inconsistency at all for the simple reason that…

— Robert M. Price

Without mentioning any names, there was a film that was being done, and I ran into the producer on the plane. It…

— Joe Morton

Every morning I have been looking at CNN to see if there is any reason for hope. I see a few large…

— Robert Anton Wilson

I think one reason is that philosophers are more insecure to speak accessibly because non-philosophers are skeptical that philosophers have any special…

— Rebecca Goldstein

The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.

— Douglas Crockford

God planted a dream in your heart for a reason. No one else can dream it for you. No one else will…

— Joel Osteen

The reason so many celebrities try to keep things secret is you want the chance to get to know someone without the…

— Jesse Metcalfe

To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If I find something funny and make an older woman laugh, I love that for some reason.

— Nathan Fielder

“If you're going to be rude, do it for a reason and get something from it.”

— Patricia C. Wrede

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.

— Peter Ustinov

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough…

— Sarah Dessen

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.

— Samuel Johnson

Things happen for some reason. I don't know what, but I just think about the positives, focus on getting better, and that's…

— Cain Velasquez

We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I grew up in London, and that's where I spend most of my time. Unless I have a really good reason not…

— Douglas Booth

I already had a lot of friends at school who didn't care about the whole acting thing, so there was no reason…

— Asa Butterfield

You'll be back. When the hunger knows no reason! And then you'll need to feed, and you'll need me to show you…

— Catherine Deneuve

Each man does seek his own interest, but, unfortunately, not according to the dictates of reason.

— Kenneth Waltz

There's no point in fighting guys when there's no structure, there's no rhyme or reason to who gets the title shot.

— Luke Rockhold