Reason Quotes
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Hours later I knew for certain I had felt the presence of this choking, slaving smell before, sometime when I was very young, inside my sleep, but this does not occur to me at the time. I come back out into the main room. I stand among the pictures and the light. I decide there’s no reason to report this, that I should not have come here, that I feel older than I ever had all through my blood. I feel dizzy in the middle of the photographs of her, the mirrors, a silent catacomb of eyes. That’s when I realize I’m being recorded.
Blake Butler
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I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.
Albert Einstein
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If you are affronted it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge. If you can keep reason above passion, that and watchfulness will be your best defenders.
Isaac Newton
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I remember reading about the astounding number of people in this country who die within three years of retiring, which proves to me that if you lose the sense that you are producing or contributing in some way, you literally lose the will to live, and that if you do have a reason to hang on, you will.
Anthony Robbins
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Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.
Norton Juster
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For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.
Aristotle
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People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the bands existence. They treated our gigs as something threatening. Im sure that it probably was. They probably had reasons to be scared.
Greg Ginn Black Flag
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Few women are dumb enough to listen to reason.
William Feather
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He's very nice. He's something I replied. She considered this zipping her purse shut. Then she said Well everyone is. Everyone is Something. For some reason that stuck with me simple and yet not every since she'd said it. It was like a puzzle as well two vague words with one clear one between them.
Sarah Dessen
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Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason.
Tom Hanks
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Writing is like fishing. You don't bow because you made the fish. That's the difference. If you know that, then you bow for your labor.You crafted, you worked, you put in those hours so that you could catch that fish. But you didn't make that fish. You just caught the fish. That will help you stay humble and bow for the right reason and be very lucid about the work you do.
Sandra Cisneros
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I'm playing great music with great people and so there's no reason to stop.
Graham Cyril Russell
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Subconscious is motivated by emotion, right? Not reason.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Virginia Woolf
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There's a reason for everything, you said, and though it's a mystery to me now, I know it won't always be so.
Ben Sherwood
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"I’ve thought of a reason,” Kit MacNeill said
Connie Brockway
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As for performing live, I just never imagined how it would work out; for good reason, because it doesn't just work out - not the way you think it will. It's a chance that you take.
Ariel Pink
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Thus it is a very serious lapse in scholarly competence and/or intellectual integrity for someone like Dawkins, an Oxford don who sees fit to pour scorn on the scholarly acumen and intellectual honesty of others, to treat the Five Ways as if they constituted Aquinas’s complete case for God’s existence, to ignore Aquinas’s responses to various objections, and to tell his readers that Aquinas gives “absolutely no reason” for certain claims that, as I have said, he actually devotes many hundreds of pages to defending.
Edward Feser
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I forget, is freedom of speech when it's legal to say what you want or is it when it has no consequences for some reason?
Eugene Mirman
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The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.
Seth MacFarlane
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It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.
Johnny Depp
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if reason ruled the world would history even exist?
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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The most important thing is that they won the game. And that's what I've always said about Wilt's 100-point game. We won the game. ... That's the reason you play.
Al Attles
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I always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason.
Roz Chast