Carl Webb Quotes

Banks get in trouble for one reason: They make bad loans.

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• I hate jeans for no reason.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Hate
  • Reason
  • Jeans

• For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Reason
  • Always
  • Nervous

• Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Reason
  • Step
  • Where

• When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Reason
  • Author

• As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Why
  • Song
  • Reason

• When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Mom
  • Always
  • Trouble

• Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Reason
  • Mad
  • Rage

• For it is extremely absurd to expect to be enlightened by reason, and yet to prescribe to her beforehand on which side she must incline.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Reason
  • Incline

• Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

  

  Aristotle
  • Knowledge
  • Reason
  • Fact

• If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that.

  

  James Woolsey
  • Government
  • Trouble
  • Do Nothing

• My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Right
  • Trouble
  • Thing

• People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that's really the key to life in many ways for me. And the thing is, it's not for us to reason why everything is what it is... just do it.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Life
  • Why
  • Reason

• I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Trust
  • Reason
  • Wise

• If I say to my daughter, "Go say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I think the idea that she'll say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude only if she wants to is the biggest crock of silliness I've ever heard. Yet I meet people everyday who were clearly brought up to think that if they didn't want to say "hi" to Aunt Gertrude, that was fine.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• Men do not often dare to avow, even to themselves, the slow progress reason has made in their minds; but they are ready to follow it if it is presented to them in a lively and striking manner, and forces them to recognize it.

  

  Marquis de Condorcet
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Reason

• Because there's someone else here in East Carmin. Someone hopelessly unsuitable. It's all a really bad idea and will lead to trouble of the worst sort. But no matter what, every minute in her presence makes my life a minute more complete.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Trouble
  • Presence
  • Complete

• You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.

  

  James Stewart
  • People
  • Trouble
  • Surface

• There are reasons, increasing in number and quality, to believe that the masses of ordinary galaxies may have been underestimated by a factor of 10 or more.

  

  Jeremiah P. Ostriker
  • Quality
  • Reason
  • Number

• Science is starting to show that our brains are less able to detect calories in liquids. So, people in the know, including food industry executives, when they run into health trouble, the first thing they do is cut calories out of all the liquids that they drink as a way of maintaining their weight.

  

  Michael Moss
  • People
  • Brain
  • Trouble

• I assume that most people’s default setting is feminist, until they do or say something that makes me think otherwise.

  

  Bridget Christie
  • Feminist
  • People's default

• Banks get in trouble for one reason: They make bad loans.

  

  Carl Webb
  • Reason
  • Trouble