Reason Quotes
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I have never sought the reason why I write.
Nathalie Sarraute -
I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
Kat Dennings
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But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of one's money. Avarice, the most hateful and wolfish of all the hard, cool, callous dispositions of selfishness, has its own peculiar caprices and crotchets. The ingenuities of its meanness defy all the calculations of reason, and reach the miraculous in subtlety.
Edwin Percy Whipple -
Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.
Baruch Spinoza -
That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.
Eden Hazard -
Reason gains all people by compelling none.
Aaron Hill -
No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists.
Vladimir Putin
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People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love.
Haruki Murakami -
The only reason I'd ever get a sex change operation is to see what it's like to be right all the time.
Brian Wilson -
The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.
Edward T. Hall -
My mum was my inspiration. As cliche as that sounds, she was the reason that we started. She chose cycling to lose weight. I was only eight at the time, so I just followed what my mum did.
Laura Trott -
I was born in Canada for a reason. It was because my parents wanted me to have the freedoms that this country offers.
Patrick Chan -
There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.
Zac Posen
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
Sam Jaeger -
I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
Farrah Fawcett -
The reason why I play around with the word legend is because this is my 7th CD and a lot of artists don't even make it that far. Many artists don't even pass three or four.
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin -
The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
Fiona Apple -
The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don't need to believe it.
Carl Jung -
It's such a risk to write a novel that it's easy to become conservative - you're spending what would be, for me, a couple of years of my life on a single idea. Which is maybe one of the reasons I write stories - if it doesn't work, you've only lost a month.
Ethan Canin
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Our natural reason looks at marriage and turns up its nose and says, Alas! Must I rock the baby? wash its diapers? make its bed? smell its stench? stay at nights with it? take care of it when it cries? heal its rashes and sores? and on top of that care for my spouse, provide labor at my trade, take care of this and take care of that? do this and do that? and endure this and endure that? Why should I make such a prisoner of myself?
Elisabeth Elliot -
I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can't run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That's the biggest single business in the World.
Will Rogers -
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
Vladimir Nabokov -
There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.
Yair Lapid