Reason Quotes

• At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.

  

  Nikki Reed
  • Love
  • Purpose
  • Reason

• One of the reasons I went back to music even though I was extremely ill was because I started to forget who I was aside from being sick. And when I'm performing, or even lecturing, it's like I'm myself again, and that was a really amazing discovery - that, all of a sudden, I have a get-out-of-jail-free card.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Sick
  • Forget
  • Performing

• I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Think
  • Reason
  • Will

• She had such a young sense of humor. Every single thing that went wrong or was funny for any reason, she laughed herself stupid about it -- it kept us all sane.

  

  Prince William
  • She
  • Funny
  • Single

• If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Movie
  • Person
  • See

• I hate complaining about paparazzi, I hate complaining about being recognised, because if I ultimately didn't want to be an actor or in the public eye, I would quit doing what I do. That's not the reason I do it, but I love the work so much that it's worth it.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Work
  • Hate
  • Actor

• If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so obsessive and so lonely to write that, in return for all this work, one would like a little self satisfaction. And that is never going to come, for the simple reason that I do not deserve it. I cannot be a good enough writer. You see? I call it grim. But the future looks awfully clear to me.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Good
  • Work
  • Writing

• Halloween is one of my favorite days of the year. I have a strict rule: I don't work on Halloween and I won't travel on Halloween. Not for any reason.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Reason
  • Rules
  • Strict

• For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Time
  • Horizon
  • Noses

• I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my career], because so many things are on the road. I just don't want to be away from my husband, my dogs and my home. I don't sing that much any more because that also takes you on the road.

  

  Jane Powell
  • Work
  • Why
  • Home

• I'd love to do a court-room drama. I loved 'Ally McBeal.' That was one of the main reasons I went to law school.

  

  Rebel Wilson
  • School
  • Reason
  • Drama

• If the argument is that failure helps you succeed, well, so does success and it’s quicker. This suggests at least one reason for trying to succeed.

  

  Norman Geras
  • Reason
  • Succeed
  • Argument

• It doesn't take much to lose everything, just a little departure from reason.

  

  Epictetus
  • Reason
  • Lose
  • Departure

• We've gone through some times this year where we haven't had some guys produce a whole lot of runs. There's a reason we rank where we are, offensively. I know there weren't a lot of monster years put up, but it seems like this is a good baseball team, and we can score some runs.

  

  Eric Byrnes
  • Monster
  • Runs
  • Baseball Team

• Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Way
  • Reason

• Seth wished he had kept the zombie hand. What a perfect souvenir from his first official mission as a Knight of the Dawn! Instead he had thrown it out of the jeep almost reflexively. Hearing all of those zombie voices must have temporarily scrambled his reason.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Mission
  • Wished
  • Zombie

• You must all know about Bourgain, so I don't have to write his name on the board-for an obvious reason.

  

  Endre Szemeredi
  • Reason
  • Name

• We haven't developed what some have called the precautionary principle which will say look, if there's a reason, if a product is safe, that's fine, but it's really the responsibility of an industry to tell us it's safe and to make sure it's safe. It's not our responsibility to wait until the damage is done.

  

  David Rosner
  • Done
  • Responsibility
  • Waiting

• Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote, Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat? I'm fourteen years old, that is the reason, I giggle and dote in season.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Adolescence
  • Goats
  • Fourteen

• There's no reason that there has to be a fringe network that illuminates an urban or a multiethnic experience.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Experience
  • Reason
  • Urban

• I don’t tweet for a very simple reason, which is that I drink.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • Simple
  • Drink
  • Tweet

• Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Promise

• Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.

  

  William James
  • Habit
  • Two
  • Difficulty

• It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

  

  Irwin Edman
  • Men
  • Reason
  • Logic

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