Reason Quotes
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For me there is no reason why to go up in weight class, because when you go up in weight class you have to fight bigger guys - then you have to train against bigger guys. The guys are not better, they're heavier, but it means you have more chance to get hurt.
Georges St-Pierre
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Reason is a passion; an instinct, a drive.
Bette Howland
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He regarded life as a rather odd club of which he had accidentally become a member and from which one could be expelled without reasons having to be supplied. He had already decided to leave the club if the meetings should become all too boring. But how boring is boring?
Cees Nooteboom
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
Blaise Pascal
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I'm a sluggish character; I'm a bit slow. For some reason I find it hard to work quickly.
Jarvis Cocker Pulp
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It's a funny thing because it's what the people say when they come across a ghost situation is that it does freak you out, but then you do get over it - for some reason you're not scared to come across it again.
Rhys Darby
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It's my belief that one of the unconscious reasons which underlies the odd attitude of the establishment toward hallucinogens is the fact that they bring the mystery to the surface as an individual experience. In other words, you do not understand the psychedelic experience by getting a report from Time magazine or even the Economist. You only understand the psychedelic experience by having it.
Terence McKenna
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Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.
Carrie Fisher
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A marriage, she thought, had to have a reason for being.
Bel Kaufman
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
William James
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One of the great reasons, I am sure, why David O. McKay has lived to such a good, ripe, and vigorous old age has been the fact that as a young man he developed habits of retiring to bed early, arising early, generally before sun up, when his mind was clear and his body vigorous, to do the day's work.
Ernest L. Wilkinson
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Leaders volunteer to go first into danger. Their willingness to sacrifice for us is the reason we're inspired to follow.
Simon Sinek
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The reason there are no great poets and writers now is because there are no great deeds or heroes to write about. The world is becoming tame and sad and dreary.
Arthur Desmond
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We may have much that worries us, and we may find many reasons to be concerned. Yet, as President Spencer W. Kimball observed, peace and the Savior's doctrine of forgiveness are inseparably connected: The essence of forgiveness is that it brings peace to the previously anxious, restless, frustrated, perhaps tormented soul.
Cecil O. Samuelson
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She must have cried for some secret amphibian reason. Then her dress caught on fire while they danced, and there was a mess, but that's neither here nor there.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.
Thomas Keating
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Emotion as well as reason belongs to the very stuff of history.
Beryl Smalley
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And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.
Minoru Yamasaki
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But he could not taste, he could not feel. In the teashop among the tables and the chattering waiters the appalling fear came over him- he could not feel. He could reason; he could read, Dante for example, quite easily…he could add up his bill; his brain was perfect; it must be the fault of the world then- that he could not feel.
Virginia Woolf
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
Jonathan Swift
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What you put out is what you get back, and the reason so many are so short of money is that they put little or nothing out
Stuart Wilde
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The exercise of reason is not available only to specialists; it is accessible to everyone.
Stephen Greenblatt
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There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
Michael Caine