Reason Quotes
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Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.
Marianne Williamson
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In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason. If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.
William Hazlitt
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With depression, you can go in and out of it and not really know whether it's still there or not. Sometimes I'd find myself bursting into tears for no reason.
Keisha Buchanan
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A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.
Emmanuel Levinas
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I didn't really know why I wanted to go to college. I didn't really have a reason to go there other than the fact that everybody else was doing it.
Avey Tare Animal Collective
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It's shocking. There is no fundamental reason. Prices are talked up by politics, stock levels and security concerns.
William Ramsay
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I have a picture of me sitting on the step of a brownstone stoop with my mom and all the Muppets around us. And Perry Como, for some reason.
Emma Walton Hamilton
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Ah, this is fine," he cried triumphantly, holding up a small medallion on a chain. He dusted it off, and engraved on one side were the words "WHY NOT?" "That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.
Norton Juster
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I don't try to be angry to prove something. I wouldn't try to intimidate you for any reason unless you were trying to intimidate me, and then I would show you that you can't do that to me.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.
Lao Tzu
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Beware of the possible reason some people are honestly down and out - it is because they tried to copy the many who are superficially doing well.
Eugene J. Martin
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Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.
Blaise Pascal
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I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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I could be dramatic and go "He saved my life!", but sometimes you just need to see it again. Sometimes you need to see that person want it so badly for all the right reasons, and it makes you realize that no matter what you do you already won.
Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
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Nothing is more abhorrent to me than sugary-sweet photography full of pretense, poses, and gimmickry. For this reason, I have allowed myself to tell the truth about our times and people in a sincere manner.
August Sander
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If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to lament, that the intellectual grounds of it should require to be backed by moral bribery or subornation of the understanding.
John Stuart Mill
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And the colors take me down It's no reason to be sad And you leave without a sound It's no reason to be glad...
Steve Kilbey The Church
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Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.
William Shakespeare
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(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged it no longer holds.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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One of the reasons that the African American actors wanted to be a part of the show was because these people are talking to each other the way that African American people talk to each other, and they said that they didn't see that on TV.
Tony Goldwyn
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Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.
Pythagoras
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In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for 'Pretty Woman.'
Julia Roberts
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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Gautama Buddha