Reason Quotes · Page 283

It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

— Anonymous

Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.

— Josh Groban

There's a story behind every person. There's a reason why they're the way they are. Think about that before you judge anyone.

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

There was reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, might devour in turn each one of her children.

— Anonymous

Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.

— Karl Pearson

The '50s was the golden age of music all over the world for some crazy, 'X-File'-like reason I can't quite understand.

— Ry Cooder

There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.

— Samuel Barber

We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains…

— Eric Hoffer

One of the reasons that Thatcher promoted home ownership is that it promoted responsible citizens with a stake in society. But another…

— Michael Portillo

I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an…

— James Lipton

The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Water makes me feel at peace. In Corsica, I spend most of my time on the beaches or in the rivers. That's…

— Laetitia Casta

When I got back into show business in 1961, I felt - for obvious reasons - that nothing in my life went…

— Rodney Dangerfield

Because of the inherent challenges of life on the earth, all of humanity is vulnerable. This is all the more reason to…

— Mike Love

“No matter what the reason, the ways I tried to justify the situation, the second-guessing that lingered, nothing could change the fact…

— Clint Van Winkle

Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage…

— Howard Zinn

Nuclear weapons are considered the ultimate deterrent for good reason: Adversaries are unlikely to threaten the existence of a nuclear-armed state, especially…

— John Mearsheimer

I know that everybody is seeking bliss. And they're all looking for it mostly in the wrong ways, and as a result…

— Goswami Kriyananda

Everybody makes such a big deal today about team play because there's such a scarcity of it. Greed is a reason. You…

— Pete Carril

Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms.…

— Charlotte Bronte

I believe that one of the reasons Gravity Falls is such an unusual place, maybe part of the reason that the stoplights…

— Alex Hirsch

As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide…

— Michel de Montaigne

From 1962 to 1965 the US was dedicated to try to prevent the independence of South Vietnam, the reason was of course…

— Noam Chomsky

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

— Jodie Foster

Sometimes people graduate but they don't leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that,…

— Maureen Johnson

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of…

— Lyman Abbott

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.

— Lou Reed

To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.

— Eminem

We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope…

— Dionne Warwick

The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing.

— Phyllis Diller

A 150 foot yacht quickly becomes very small when you are out to sea and someone goes bonkers, for whatever reason.

— Sonja Morgan

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

— Natalie Wood

I look forward to being a voice of reason in fighting for transparent and accountable budgets.

— Ilhan Omar

I'm very shy. That's probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.

— David Bowie

“There is a reason God limits our days.' 'Why?' 'To make each one precious.”

— Mitch Albom

If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the…

— Ernest Rutherford

“I am free: there is absolutely no more reason for living, all the ones I have tried have given way and I…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I always have my lunch watching Tim Wonnacott doing 'Bargain Hunt'. I get quite twitchy if it's not on for whatever reason.

— Alexander Armstrong

I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is…

— Steven Spielberg