Reason Quotes

• See it as it is, not worse than it is just so you have a reason not to try.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Trying
  • Reason

• In a very simple sense I want everything that's in a work to be there for the reason that it's needed. It's not an ornamentation. It's not there because I thought it looked nice but because it has to be there.

  

  Paul Cullen
  • Work
  • Reason
  • Sense

• The reason why wicked men and devils hate God is, because they see Him in relation to themselves. Their hearts rise up in rebellion, because they see Him opposed to their selfishness.

  

  Charles Grandison Finney
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Hate

• Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Reason
  • Should
  • Blessed

• I want to be enriched by the music I listen to. That's the reason it never really exists in the mainstream. Because that's not what most people are after.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Want
  • Mainstream

• I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country and for this I am eternally grateful.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Country
  • Freedom
  • Grateful

• And you don't ever have to worry about what I feel. The way I feel about you won't change. You can do whatever you like to me. You could turn this town to dust, burn the woods until they were cinders, you could cut out my heart. It wouldn't matter. It would not change a thing." "What if I ate a baby?" Jared's mouth curved up at the corners, slow and not cruel at all. "I'm sure you'd have a good reason," he said.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Heart
  • Worry
  • Baby

• Reason and memory are nearly always at odds.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Reason
  • Memories
  • Odds

• For a selfie, it's not about the pose, it's about you. There's a reason why you look great in the picture or you look great in real life, because someone has caught the essence of who you are, and a pose is not you.

  

  Nigel Barker
  • Life
  • Real
  • Reason

• There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

  

  Brom
  • Reason
  • Rocks
  • Brains

• Things happen. Life happens. Sometimes we draw things to us. Maybe it’s fate. I can’t tell you, Matthew. But it seems that for whatever reason, this one’s yours.

  

  Alexandra Sokoloff
  • Reason
  • Fate
  • Happen

• Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Funny
  • Reason
  • Silly

• Reason is the Soul of the Law.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Soul
  • Law
  • Reason

• I write poetry to figure things out. It's what I use as a navigating tool in my life, so when there's something that I just can't understand, I have to "poem" my way through it. For that reason I write a lot about family, because my family confuses me and I'm always trying to figure them out. I write a lot about love, because love is continually confusing in all of its many glorious aspects.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • Life
  • Family
  • Poetry

• I don't need legitimization to take part in Israeli productions; I am a good actress. To work in Israel is a financial investment for me. I do it for emotional, not artistic, reasons.

  

  Mili Avital
  • Financial
  • Investment
  • Actresses

• All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any Truth in this Science, do all unanimously agree to laugh at and despise it; and none but the poor ignorant Vulgar give it any Credit.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Judge
  • Learned
  • Credit

• With the advent of winter, her eyes seemed to take on a greater transparency, a transparency that lead nowhere. Occassionally, for no particular reason, Naoko would gaze into my eyes as if searching for something. Each time I was filled with odd sensations of lonliness and inadequecy.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Lead
  • Searching
  • Transparency

• You actually do confront your dark side, your impulses, or your feelings of sibling rivalry in Cinderella or whatever. You admit that they exist and then you work through them and conquer them and come out living happily ever after having learned something. That's one reason why the fairy tales keep having traction and meaning.

  

  Catherine Hardwicke
  • Dark
  • Feelings
  • Impulse

• And remember, also," added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, "that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Remember
  • Today
  • Secret

• We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.

  

  Daniel Wolpert
  • Brain
  • Movement
  • Produce

• I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.

  

  Ava Gardner
  • Money
  • Reason

• Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.

  

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Decision

• There's another important reason not to send the Dreamers packing: they are essential to preserving the social insurance programs on which older Americans rely.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Reason
  • Dreamers
  • Social Programs

• The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Reason
  • Conclusions
  • Motives

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