Reason Quotes · Page 223

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other

— Martin Luther

Some people are mistaken, they think birds need feed to survive, but they don't. The main reason to feed birds is to…

— Maggie Elizabeth Jones

Your field report might be the reason someone detoured six blocks, say, on their way to the chiropractor.

— Kevin Moffett

There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary.

— Trevor Dunn

The reason that people say one line at junkets is that they've heard the same question 37 times. You get bored out…

— Ted Shackelford

If your going to tell me to s m I l e, would you mind giving me a reason to?

— SangFroid Stalker

There's no reason your outdoor furniture should look like cheap plastic that will blow over or break in two seconds.

— Jonathan Scott

A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.

— Maynard James Keenan

America's only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry against religious people. And the only reason for hatred of religion is that it…

— William Bennett

One of the reasons I don't do social media is that I like the feeling that if somebody asks me for a…

— Mackenzie Davis

People ask, "What could possibly cause a normal person to torture her own child?" Well, the answer is: Nothing could cause a…

— Martha Stout

Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things, and there is no rhyme or reason. I am very lucky because I…

— Peter Morgan

In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries…

— Jean Giraudoux

The original series of Watchmen is the complete story that Alan Moore and I wanted to tell. However, I appreciate DC's reasons…

— Dave Gibbons

I love Crews, but had been writing a long time before I knew of him. I learned of him because a friend…

— Joe R. Lansdale

You ask me why I spend my life writing? Do I find entertainment? Is it worthwhile? Above all, does it pay? If…

— Sylvia Plath

While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire,…

— Derek Parfit

I used to think the reason I'd like to stop letting fear run my life was that it felt so bad to…

— Jan Frazier

There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

There's the reason that I think that red states don't trust the government. They see it as an instrument of their own…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

A child of three cannot raise its chubby fist to its mouth to remove a piece of carpet which it is through…

— Robert Benchley

Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the…

— Mark Twain

Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the…

— Oscar Wilde

One of the reasons so many nonfiction books are so boring is because what they've done, very diligently, is fulfill the terms…

— Geoff Dyer

I think there are too many people in jail for too long and for not necessarily good reasons.

— Eric Holder

. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.

— Mary Astell

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

— Marquis de Custine

PSG - I think they had a money problem and they couldn't buy players. This is the main reason I didn't go…

— Angel Di Maria

You can say something stupid with an incredible heartfelt sentiment and for some reason, it might be insanely powerful.

— Matt Corby

We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

— Vanna Bonta

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

— John Calvin

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

— Hermann Broch

I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan,

— Shinzo Abe

'It is love and reason,' I said, 'fleeing from all this madness of war.'

— H. G. Wells

To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.

— John Locke

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

— Virginia Woolf

The studies that show the reason Washington real estate is booming and there are so many lobbyists in town, it does pay.

— Mark Shields

My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people.

— Kenneth Branagh

-I want to be the reason behind your smile because your'e the reason behind mines...

— Rafael Martinez

Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.

— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield