Reason Quotes · Page 331

For whatever reason, I've always gravitated towards music that feels nostalgic or longing or beautifully tragic.

— Lauv

...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I'm here because the reason I get up each morning, needs me as much as I need her." -Jax Stone

— Abbi Glines

Reason has, especially today, many other manifestations than philosophical ones.

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

To achieve originality we need to abandon the comforts of habit, reason, and the approval of our peers, and strike out in…

— Marty Neumeier

Coincidence: the best way to describe or ignore things that happen for a reason.

— Myself

I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing…

— Max Beckmann

One reason I didn't trust my writing for so long was that I always considered myself a serious dramatic actor. But people…

— Ruby Dee

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that…

— Stephen King

There are two main reasons why we may not be bringing forth the fruit we should. It may be because of ignorance,…

— Francis Schaeffer

Your life is nothing more than a love story. Between you and God. Nothing more. Every person, every experience, every gift, every…

— Yasmin Mogahed

But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I think there's every…

— K. Eric Drexler

I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is…

— Temple Grandin

People who've written about Abraham Lincoln's writing emphasize how logical he was. His writing was a syllogistic tool. He would say, if…

— George Saunders

I was always the popular kid that everyone hated. There was no reason for anyone to hate me. I never really did…

— Danielle Bregoli

I don't see how one can "believe in organized religion." What does it mean to believe in an organization? One can join…

— Noam Chomsky

Love is the weapon which Omnipotence reserved to conquer rebel man when all the rest had failed. Reason he parries; fear he…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is…

— Aristotle

...if we know God our knowledge of... everything will be brought to perfection, and, in so far as is possible, the infinite,…

— Pope Dionysius

Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow,…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life…

— Jane Jacobs

In the long term, we've got to defeat an ideology of hate with an ideology of hope. There' a reason why people…

— George W. Bush

If we can keep our minds calm on the subject of the "Eternity of God," if reason does not totter on her…

— Nehemiah Adams

Once socialism replaces capitalism, reason will determine the policies of states.

— Kenneth Waltz

“Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.”

— Ayn Rand

It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality

— Gilles Deleuze

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

It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less…

— John Steinbeck

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

— Anonymous

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

— Anonymous

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

— Brian Ferneyhough

There are three very good reasons to travel: 1. See the world. 2. Meet new people. 3. Room service.

— Linda Sunshine

HOPE sustains us through despair. Hope teaches that there is reason to rejoice...even when all seems dark around us.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've…

— Nina Bawden

One of the reasons that millionaires are economically successful is that they think differently.

— Thomas J. Stanley

For various reasons, when people engage the Bible, they don't see very readily how it relates to their work.

— David Kim

“Apparently rational justifications will never explain all sorts of the different feelings and raw emotions art invoke in people.”

— Cristiane Serruya

There is no reason why excellent pictures can't be made for $4-5 million.

— Bill Duke