Reason Quotes

• But I didn't walk a single step. I stopped a lot to stretch, but I never walked. I didn't come here to walk. I came to run. That's the reason-the only reason-I flew all the way to the northern tip of Japan. No matter how slow I might run, I wasn't about to walk. That was the rule.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Rule
  • Step
  • Walk

• The reason for our loving God is God.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Reason
  • Loving God

• Court is an institution that depends on making tough decisions in close cases for reasons that it explains well and that, in the past at least, have proven satisfactory to the public.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Past
  • Decision
  • Tough

• Willie Nelson's the one who told me the reason it costs so much to get divorced is because it's worth it.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Reason
  • Divorced

• Terrorists have already attacked our Nation once. There is every reason to believe that they will try again - possibly with a weapon of mass destruction; a weapon that could be smuggled into our ports.

  

  Mike Fitzpatrick
  • Reason
  • Destruction
  • Terrorist

• However, there's three reasons for doing things in this particular world. One is love, one is prestige and the other's money. If you get all three together, that's fine.

  

  Richard O'Brien
  • Together
  • Particular
  • Prestige

• Even if you are angry and you have reason to be angry, that doesn't give you license to be cruel. We have to take responsibility for ourselves and the way we act.

  

  Christi Paul
  • Responsibility
  • Reason

• Unless a man is prepared to ask a woman to be his wife, what right has he to claim her exclusive attention? Unless she has been asked to marry him, why would a sensible woman promise any man her exclusive attention? If, when the time has come for a commitment, he is not man enough to ask her to marry him, she should give him no reason to presume that she belongs to him.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Attention
  • Wife
  • Promise

• There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Book
  • Reason

• Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. … Feed only on the best. As John Wesley’s mother counseled him: ‘Avoid whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, … increases the authority of the body over the mind.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • God
  • Books
  • Conscience

• One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Problem
  • Crafts

• Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Giving
  • Wish
  • Anger

• Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.

  

  Catherine Opie
  • Language
  • Photograph
  • Complicated

• An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Enlightened
  • Sovereignty
  • Limitless

• We take drugs because we want to feel a sense of connection, and we seek God for the same reason. The search, no matter where it's directed - divine union or cocaine - begins with pain that comes from believing you're separate from love. The key is using spiritual practice to turn inward, toward awareness, which is what we actually are.

  

  Angel Grant
  • Reason
  • Connection
  • Drugs

• Coach (Jimmy) Williams said it best that these guys have a resistance to learning. We go over it every day. For some reason these guys don't absorb it. That's what has frustrated the coaches. They're good people. They're not bad kids at all. But it's been a very frustrating year for the coaching staff.

  

  Eddie Sutton
  • Kids
  • Learning
  • Coach

• We always monitor the flow of information, intelligence, threat streams to see whether we have any indication there's some imminent. We work hard to identify potential cells and disrupt them. This is one of the reasons we put so much emphasis on intelligence gathering.

  

  Michael Chertoff
  • Information
  • Emphasis
  • Gathering

• One of the most difficult things to say to another person is, 'I hope that you will love me for no good reason.' But it is what we all want and rarely dare to say to one another, to our children, to our parents and mates, to our friends, and to strangers, especially to strangers who have neither good, nor bad reasons to love us.

  

  Russell Banks
  • Children
  • Difficult
  • Parent

• One of reasons I was able to go to university was because of the sacrifices my family made.

  

  Michael Gove
  • Family
  • Sacrifice
  • Made

• I’m conceited, I got a reason

  

  Remy Ma
  • Reason
  • Got
  • Conceited

• Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Writing
  • Enough
  • Obligation

• You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Reason
  • Extras

• To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth.

  

  Esi Edugyan
  • Earth
  • Reason
  • Chocolate

• One of the reasons the whole Hollywood way of making films wouldn't work for me is because the way I operate would be anathema to anyone who wants to hold a job down in Beverly Hills.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Way
  • Film
  • Jobs

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