Reason Quotes
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If you truly love someone, don't waste your time finding reasons to hate them. Spend it remembering why you love them in the first place.
Jeremy Miles Ferguson Amen
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The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course.
Freddie Mercury Queen
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To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god.
Socrates
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There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.
Chris Martin Coldplay
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When something happens, we always say it happens for a reason.
Michael Clarke Duncan
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The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
William Godwin
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It's a human phenomenon that there has to be a reason for everything. There almost never is.
Theo Epstein
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The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.
Flannery O'Connor
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People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.
Robert Frost
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I'm friends with everybody. I love everybody. I trust everybody because they don't give me a reason not to.
Christofer Drew
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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
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Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat.
Vladimir Nabokov
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One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered facts.
Albert Einstein
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Reason is nothing without imagination.
Rene Descartes
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To write honestly and with conviction anything about the migration of birds, one should oneself have migrated. Somehow or other we should dehumanize ourselves, feel the feel of feathers on our body and wind in our wings, and finally know what it is to leave abundance and safety and daylight and yield to a compelling instinct, age-old, seeming at the time quite devoid of reason and object.
William Beebe
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If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.
Epictetus
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The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an anticipated vision of what we could be if we would be what we might be.
Pir Vilayat Khan
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Reason? That dreary shed, that hutch for grubby schoolboys.
Theodore Roethke
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I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire, But qualify the fire's extreme rage, Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason.
William Shakespeare
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For some reason, we've just lost it. I know we still have it. Everyone has got to find it.
Ashley Smith
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Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it.
Blaise Pascal
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There must be some deep psychological reason why we turn so instinctively toward home at this special time. . . . A place where every day will be Christmas, with everybody there together. At home.
Marjorie Holmes
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One of the reasons that Im running for president is I want to make sure that every young man and woman who puts on the uniform of the United States respects highly the president of the United States.
Rick Perry
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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