Reason Quotes
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I'm a rationalist and a skeptic, someone who safely separates faith from reason.
Benjamin Wittes
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And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?
Alexandra Ripley
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The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to love and be loved and through this love become instruments of peace in the world.
Mother Teresa
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The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what I put out into the world, the footsteps I leave behind.
Ben Sollee
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What do you know about being sad? I know you don't need a reason.
Aryn Kyle
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Actually, my first group was a folkloric group, an Argentine folkloric group when I was 10. By the time I was 11 or 12 I started writing songs in English. And then after a while of writing these songs in English it came to me that there was no reason for me to sing in English because I lived in Argentina and also there was something important [about Spanish], so I started writing in Spanish.
Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo
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Getting even is one reason for writing.
William H. Gass
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Faith can make no appeal to reason or the fitness of things; its appeal is to the Word of God, and whatever is therein revealed, faith accepts as true.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.
Fernand Braudel
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You are not special. There is no plan for you. Nothing happens for a reason. Just try not to die and shut up.
Alec Sulkin
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We can always find a reason to praise. Situations change for better and for worse, but God's worth never changes.
Matt Redman
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... nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of it?'
Walker Evans
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Nothing can be more contrary to nature, to reason, to religion, than cruelty; hence as inhuman man is generally considered as a monster; such monsters, however, have existed; and the heart almost bleeds at the recital of the cruel acts such have been guilty of; it teaches us, however, what human nature is when left to itself; not only treacherous, but desperately wicked.
Charles Buck
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She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked me if I loved her. I told her it didn't mean anything but that I didn't think so. She looked sad. But as we were fixing lunch, and for no apparent reason, she laughed in such a way that I kissed her.
Albert Camus
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At this stage, there is no reason why he would not be selected on the spring tour. Like every player in the squad, his performance during the winter season will be reviewed and evaluated but he is the current Australian captain and the right man to lead the team through this next period of time.
Eddie Charles Jones
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Most worshippers of God are intent on the advancement of their own destiny, not on His worship. In India, no one has ever claimed to be a prophet. The reason is that claims to divinity are customary.
Akbar
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We cannot find God for the same reason that a thief can't find a police officer.
Michael Horton
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Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.
Simone de Beauvoir
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
Cesare Pavese
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Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.
Brian Tracy
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Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by 1960 or so.
Igor Sikorsky
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Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
Alexandre Dumas
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Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.
Immanuel Kant
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The reason for living is to have great relationships, to have people you love and respect and who love and respect you.
Brian Tracy