Reason Quotes · Page 319

The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.

— G. I. Gurdjieff

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

— Adam Duritz

A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.

— Wyndham Lewis

If you truly love someone, then they never leave your heart, only your side.

— Anonymous

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a…

— Jill Stein

Sometimes, films that you do with a lot of care and look good at the time of signing may not work out…

— Tamannaah

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.

— Steve Forbes

It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find…

— Caroline Dhavernas

Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm,…

— Gregory Maguire

There's only one reason why you write new songs: You get sick of the old songs. It's not that I didn't do…

— Tom Waits

There's no reason for Gillette to be world class on the web, but there's every reason for Gillette to be world class…

— James Collins

I have a lot of reason to believe, as we saw in the 2012 election, most Americans don't agree with the extremists…

— Hillary Clinton

It is good from time to time to recall all those big and little reasons why you wanted to quit smoking in…

— Zig Ziglar

Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I…

— Waylon Jennings

I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the…

— Ice Cube

In terms of homosexuality, not everyone is prepared for a daily struggle against nature. In some ways, people who challenge and subvert…

— Bruce LaBruce

Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. Her giving to man…

— Immanuel Kant

I actually think the reason I am interested in certain parts is because I was such a dweeb in high school. When…

— Sigourney Weaver

It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our…

— Elie Wiesel

The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely…

— Marquis de Sade

The principal reason, invariably, most "successful" giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their…

— Tom Peters

Love is our only reason for living and the only purpose of life. We live for the sake of love, and we…

— Swami Muktananda

I don't believe you should interfere with any classic for reasons of religious or political correctness.

— Terry Hands

Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time.

— George Washington

The truth is that the sole reason we don’t see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded,…

— R. C. Sproul, Jr

Maybe this one moment, with this one person, is the very reason we’re here on Earth at this time.

— Jean Watson

I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument.

— Barack Obama

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended…

— Galileo Galilei

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

When years from now people look back on today, they will think the same thing they already do but with more reasons…

— Eugene Mirman

Sometimes you can't help conceding as a keeper, but that's the whole reason you are there.

— Jordan Pickford

There's a reason why someone silent, but there's no reason why someone keep talking.

— Mohamad Hafiz

“Salvation of human life requires disclosure of truth through reason, surpassing bigotry.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Men in particular need to speak more about their personal reasons for wanting diversity in the workplace.

— Jane Silber

There's no woman that's crazy for no reason. That behavior is a reaction. Believe that.

— Mirjana Puhar

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess…

— Peter Kreeft

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I was definitely one of those kids who, for whatever reason, followed politics and public policy.

— Annamie Paul