Reason Quotes · Page 252

Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

— John Henry Newman

When there is suffering, we look for a reason. That reason is easiest found within oneself.

— Clare Vanderpool

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

— Blaise Pascal

Whatever the reason for any one individual's tendency to gain weight, the only way to lose the weight is to eat less…

— Robin Marantz Henig

The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance

— Richard Hooker

If I like a movie, I see no reason not to go back for Parts 2, 3, 4, etc.

— Fred Willard

“She was the reason I started to write but her beauty is kept me writing.”

— Brandon Villasenor

The reason there are outlaws is they don't like to adopt standards They like to do things their way.

— Johnny Paycheck

Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with…

— Raymond Chandler

The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men,…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Being on a successful show is kind of like being a sea turtle. Every year, sea turtles lay hundreds and hundreds of…

— Keiko Agena

the real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult,…

— Betsy Byars

Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that…

— Terry Pratchett

I have a great deal of respect for Coach Fitch. When we won the championship in '81, he was the main reason…

— Robert Parish

Presley brought an excitement to singing, in part because rock and roll was greeted as his invention, but for other reasons not…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

I must admit, the only reason I joined an amateur dramatic society is because I couldn't get to kiss any girls -…

— Michael Caine

Most of the reasons for late-term abortions have to do with severe fetal deformities, but when I found out that dwarfism was…

— John H Richardson

I really don't watch enough TV to know about the impact. In my experience as a TV writer, I would say is…

— A.M. Homes

Let me see: art and activism. I can always fall back on, "the question should be, what isn't political? Everything you do…

— Eric Drooker

I was shocked when I found out who the biggest failure in the Bible actually is...The biggest one in the whole Bible…

— Kenneth Copeland

Senseless violence is, almost by definition, hard to understand. Not that I can understand terrorists who kill from hate, but at least…

— Susan Estrich

The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as firmly and completely as any historical event not…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

More and more people are becoming unable to accept traditional [religious] beliefs. If they think that, apart from these beliefs, there is…

— Bertrand Russell

Me myself I park in handicap, the reason why... ya know my bankroll make me walk with a crazy limp.

— Anonymous

Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard…

— Melvin Burgess

To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.

— Marcus Aurelius

Everything happens for a reason. We always go through things that make us better people.

— Danny Green

There's many reason music exists and we are beginning to no only understand that, but measure that.

— Tod Machover

Bubbles are round for the same reason that planets are spherical. The universe itself is like bubbles.

— Tom Noddy

Love is just something you can't explain, like the look of a rose, the smell of rain, or the feeling of forever.

— Anonymous

Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write.

— Joan Didion

Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.

— John Dryden

Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

— Will Eisner

I would love to do a good gritty drama, a romantic role. I tend to play bad guys for some reason.

— Will Rothhaar

For whatever reason, I'm a good representation of the guy who doesn't get the girl.

— Scott Foley

The reason why there are so many characters who suffer in my games is that I want to show reality.

— Yoko Taro

There are some people that probably should be in the Hall of Fame, but they're not for some reason.

— Gale Sayers

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

— Wilhelm Wundt

I believe that everything happens for a reason, and what seems bad at first might in fact be something of a blessing.

— Robert Greene