Alfred de Musset Quotes
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
Wallace Stevens -
I don't do athletics for any other reason than achieving certain distances, certain titles and goals in my head.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
D. B. Weiss -
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
E. L. Doctorow -
The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don't need to believe it.
Carl Jung -
No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.
Zooey Deschanel
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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
Ovid -
I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.
Aaron Sorkin -
I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
H. L. Mencken -
My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.
Damien Chazelle -
It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that - an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends.
Iain McGilchrist -
I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
Maya Angelou
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.
George Bernard Shaw -
Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.
Epictetus -
The number of people who said that it made a difference to them that I'm out is the reason that I'm out. There are people who devote their lives to taking away the rights of gays and lesbians, and I think that visibility is very important. I'm trying to encourage more people to come out, and show everyone who they are, because it's harder to take away the rights of a human being. And this is a miracle state, because we can get married. And I think that these people working to take away our rights are going to lose, because of this generation.
Anthony Rapp -
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 -
I thought, can you think of any really good reason not to do it? Except that, oh, I'm so shy, or oh, my private life, or oh, are they going to find out how boring I am? You know? And that was the only reason now, in a sense, not to do television. Because it certainly is a method of expression, which has to be accepted as these things come along.
Katharine Hepburn
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Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.
William Shakespeare -
I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.
Lance Reddick -
No, the Scriptures were not given to us to confuse us but rather to instruct us. Certainly God intends that we should believe His Word with all simplicity. A thousand years means a thousand years; a wolf means a wolf; a lion means a lion. If you read your Bible that way, a child can understand it.
M. R. DeHaan -
Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.
Alfred de Musset