Reason Quotes
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But do you know why we are always more just and generous toward the dead? The reason is simple. With them there is no obligation. They leave us free and we can take our time, fit the testimonial between a cocktail party and a nice little mistress, in our spare time, in short.
Albert Camus
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The only reason to write is from love.
Stephen Sondheim
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There is no luck in life, everything happens for a reason. Every little thing that you do... leads up to a bigger thing. And that's the story of my life.
Georges St-Pierre
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Nobody does anything for one reason.
Russell Banks
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I sometimes think that I don't let myself know what I'm really thinking about. That doesn't make much sense but it makes sense to me. I have this idea that the reason we have dreams is that we're thinking about things that we don't know we're thinking about—and those things, well, they sneak out of us in our dreams. Maybe we're like tires with too much air in them. The air has to leak out. That's what dreams are.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.
Ethel Waters
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Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes you won't be on the beneficial end of it but either way it's a blessing in disguise.
Behdad Sami
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Coach (Jimmy) Williams said it best that these guys have a resistance to learning. We go over it every day. For some reason these guys don't absorb it. That's what has frustrated the coaches. They're good people. They're not bad kids at all. But it's been a very frustrating year for the coaching staff.
Eddie Sutton
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The only reason that we like complex numbers is that we don't like real numbers.
Bernd Sturmfels
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For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose?
Diane Ackerman
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There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.
Ray Bradbury
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There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Christ wants to slay reason and subdue the arrogance of the Jews.
Martin Luther
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One of the most difficult things to say to another person is, 'I hope that you will love me for no good reason.' But it is what we all want and rarely dare to say to one another, to our children, to our parents and mates, to our friends, and to strangers, especially to strangers who have neither good, nor bad reasons to love us.
Russell Banks
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I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.
Shinzo Abe
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All these lacrimal events and bouts of depersonalization were no doubt leading, I was then convinced, to the onset of schizophrenia. Indeed, the irony of my recent cardiac diagnosis was that it gave me an objective reason for my emotional turbulences and so was, in that sense, stabilizing: now I was reckoning with a specific existential threat, not just the vacuum of existence.
Ben Lerner
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I think classic films are classic for a reason. It's always sketchy to redo one, especially if you're trying to make it contemporary. That's really just not the way to go.
Nia Long
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Yes, I did have to struggle very hard to get this the vote on the Iraq war through, but the reason I did it was because I thought it was the right thing to do. I didn't take this on myself... just because I thought, 'Let's give myself a really hard time for a couple of years!'
Tony Blair
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True she was old, true she was unbeautiful, true she therefore had no reason to smile, but kind ladies smiled, reason or no. They smiled not because they were happy but because they wished to make happy.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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I have one reason why you should walk away from that temptation right now. One reason: God. Is. Better.
Francis Chan
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Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence.
George Holyoake
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Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
William Penn
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I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball.
Summer Altice
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The reason people are uncomfortable is because Donald Trump acts. He doesn't talk with a bunch of people about it before, he just acts.
Nikki Haley