Reason Quotes · Page 227

“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

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

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

Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give…

— Terry Goodkind

I always remember my mum and dad arguing a lot and one main reason was lack of money. I realized very young…

— Gino D'Acampo

When I get asked the question, "Do I want to loan you money?" I want to know, how much do you earn?…

— George Friedman

Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor,…

— John Dryden

Growing up I didn't want to be an actor. I sort of didn't want to go into the family business; the main…

— John Lithgow

“Frederick knows better than to believe, as his wife sometimes claims to, that all things happen for a reason. Things happen; it…

— Stefan Merrill Block

One of the most tragicomic things in life is that when a man makes an imaginary thing - such as a religion…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Over the summer we chatted one night while Angie stripped a bed, changed wet sheets, comforted and repajamaed a toddler, and chased…

— Jen Lancaster

Anger is a response that can lead to harm if we don't evaluate what we are upset about. Ask yourself what you…

— Jennifer James

I think that I would like to have that kind of a budget [hundreds millions dollars] and I think the reasons for…

— Duncan Jones

The reason why the simpler sort are moved with authority, is the consciousness of their own ignorance; whereby it cometh to pass…

— Richard Hooker

On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

If it is to be established that there is a God, then we have to have good grounds for believing that this…

— Antony Flew

The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even…

— Aristotle

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

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

Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt.

— Allen W. Wood

And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.

— Edward Coke

The only reason you're undefeated at WrestleMania is because you've never faced me at WrestleMania.

— Randy Orton

Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.

— Fareed Zakaria

You should never see another women as your competition, unless they're nasty to you or give you a reason for that.

— Raye

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

— Martin Amis

I'm very lucky to be doing what I'm doing, and the reason I'm doing everything is because of fans.

— Tony Oller

Your music sounds better on the radio, for some reason. It's an amazing feeling. I hope it never goes away.

— Brandon Boyd

There's a reason I am the way I am, and there's a reason I was born to you. There's always a reason.…

— Anonymous

I can't see any reason why a film shouldn't be stylized and visually beautiful. I don't think a beautiful set is pretentious.

— Alain Resnais