Reason Quotes

• As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all.

  

  Joseph P. Bradley
  • Reason
  • Marriage
  • DIssolved

• Every day is amazing, even when it's awful, because everything is for a reason. I know that this horrible thing that's happening today is going to bring something so amazing.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Today
  • Horrible
  • Awful

• Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Fear
  • Reason
  • Season

• Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it.

  

  Melissa Rosenberg
  • Reason
  • Obligation
  • Horns

• Everything in life got its purpose. Find its reason in every season.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Season

• Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.

  

  Moliere
  • Reason
  • Sacred
  • Intertwined

• When I was just a little young boy, Papa said Son, you'll never get far, I'll tell you the reason if you want to know, 'cause child of mine, there isn't really very far to go.

  

  Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
  • Children
  • Son
  • Boys

• The reason that he knew so much about everything, I found, was that wherever he went he got right in with the people.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • People
  • Reason
  • I Found

• I always knew she was being funny, but when I tell my therapist that my mom played the trust game with me and let me fall on the ground, my therapist does not find that funny. She's like, "That's the reason for everything! That's why you have such a hard time with trust!" And I'm like, "I don't really have a hard time with trust. I thought it was funny."

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Fall
  • Mom
  • Times

• Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.

  

  Bent Larsen
  • Games
  • Patience
  • Won

• We are looking for a complete, coherent, and simple understanding of reality. Given what we know about the universe, there seems to be no reason to invoke God as part of this description.

  

  Sean M. Carroll
  • Reality
  • Simple
  • Universe

• The reason I've been groundedand able to make albums, is because I've allowed my friends to come with me and voice an opinion. That's who keeps you grounded, the people who have known you longest.

  

  Jay-Z
  • People
  • Friends
  • Opinion

• I've got no interest in going over to California to fight that boring git, in a fight that no one's interested in, and that's the reason why he's trying to pimp himself out everywhere.

  

  Carl Froch
  • Trying
  • Fighting
  • Interest

• The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

  

  Gerry Mulligan
  • Pieces
  • Starting
  • Concerts

• If we can hump dead animals and antelopes, there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Men
  • Animal
  • Taboo

• Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.

  

  Sophocles
  • Children
  • Reason
  • Arms

• Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth to the child, but she is there to help during its delivery. Similarly, Socrates saw his task as helping people to 'give birth' to correct insight, since real understanding must come from within. . . . Everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Art
  • Birth
  • Delivery

• I keep writing books about why TV is good. There's nothing more fun to me than steering people toward something that I really loved that I think they might not otherwise see. That's the reason I do what I do.

  

  David Bianculli
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• There's a story behind every person. There's a reason why they're the way they are. Think about that before you judge anyone.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Reason
  • Story
  • Judge

• Which is the other reason hip-hop is controversial: People don't bother trying to get it. The problem isn't in the rap or the rapper or the culture. The problem is that so many people don't even know how to listen to the music.

  

  Jay-Z
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• The most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it; or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it. for when this reason ceased, the law itself ought likewise to cease with it.

  

  William Blackstone
  • Spirit
  • Causes
  • Moved

• If I'm shooting actually a live-action movie and I feel like I can get the shots that I need with the existing 3D cameras, then I see there is no reason to not use those-to not shoot it in 3D. But there are limitations to the 3D cameras in terms of the amount of them, in terms of the size of them, in terms of where you can actually shoot them. There are definitely limitations so you have to weigh the costs. And you have to weigh also what ultimately what creatively you want to get.

  

  Neal H. Moritz
  • Action
  • Term
  • Cameras

• If somebody told me, "Not a good idea," I would've said, "No, it's probably a good idea if you get drunk with me." I would've flipped it around on them. There was no way you could tell me anything. I wasn't listening to any type of reason.

  

  Reginald Arvizu
  • Ideas
  • Listening
  • Drunk

• Passion makes the will lord of the reason.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Passion
  • Reason
  • Lord

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