Reason Quotes
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Since I was 19, I've always gone where there was a reason to be. Maybe I'll be lucky and there'll be a reason to go somewhere tropical for a while.
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Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others.
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Reason gains all people by compelling none.
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.
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We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful.
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I have never sought the reason why I write.
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If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn't have happened.
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Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason.
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I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.
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People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love.
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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.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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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.
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I was born in Canada for a reason. It was because my parents wanted me to have the freedoms that this country offers.
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There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that - an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends.
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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.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
