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Reason Quotes by Haruki Murakami
- People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most…
- Even if there were two of me, I still couldn't do all that has to be done. No matter what, though, I keep up my…
- If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running,…
- Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg. No matter how…
- It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this…
- Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became…
- People have their own reasons for dying. It might look simple, but it never is. It's just like a rock. What's above ground is only…
- Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean the house. My…
- For example, the wind has its reasons. We just don't notice as we go about our lives. But then, at some point, we are made…
- I don't think jealousy has much of a connection with real, objective conditions. Like if you're fortunate you're not jealous, but if life hasn't blessed…
- she was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to find her appealing.
- I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school. Caught in the…
- But why should you be interested in me?" Good question. I can’t explain it myself right this moment. But maybe – just maybe – if…
- For some reason all the middle-aged women he knew were very efficient.
- I’ve had that kind of experience myself: I’m looking at a map and I see someplace that makes me think, ‘I absolutely have to go…
- But I didn't walk a single step. I stopped a lot to stretch, but I never walked. I didn't come here to walk. I came…
- People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love.
- With the advent of winter, her eyes seemed to take on a greater transparency, a transparency that lead nowhere. Occassionally, for no particular reason, Naoko…
- No matter what you tell me, no matter how legitimate your reasons, I can never just forget about you, I can never push the years…
- Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?” “No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato were as different…
- Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings…
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
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — 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 first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices… — Lance Armstrong
- I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have… — David Attenborough