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Reason Quotes by Daniel Handler
- Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.
- But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for…
- Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.
- For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use as a commonplace…
- Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. Piracy, for example, is a tradition that has been carried on for…
- I'm not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one's efforts. I'm not a believer in karma. The reason why I try to be…
- Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view…
- It is always tedious when someone tells you that if you don't stop crying, they will give you something to cry about, because if you…
- Tears are curious things, for like earthquakes or puppet shows, they can occur at any time, without any warning and without any good reason.
- There are many reasons, of course, why someone might snap their fingers and grin. If you heard some pleasing music, for instance, you might snap…
- I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn’t point to.
- It is true, of course, that there is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason…
- There is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the…
- This story is about the Baudelaires. And they are the sort of people who know that there’s always something. Something to invent, something to read,…
- There are two good reasons to put your napkin in your lap. One is that food might spill in your lap, and it is better…
- Boredom is not black licorice, Snicket," she said. "There's no reason to share it with me.
- [I]t was the color of someone buying you an ice cream cone for no reason at all.
More Reason Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. — Simone de Beauvoir