Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing.

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

Intuition transcends reason, but does not contradict it

Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.

Intuition is reason in a hurry.

Intuition without reason is the fertile mother of blunders and wrongs.

Invisible harmony is better than visible.

In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn't.

I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In the end, the only reason I am motivated to do what I do is for the hedonistic pleasures of the table.

I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist.

I part-own a bookshop for some strange coincidence of reasons, and it is one of the best things I part-own in my life, or own in my life. I do not know, it just feels great.

I realize that things happen for a reason

I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

I really believe things happen for a reason, and sometimes that reason isn't revealed until much much, much, much later.

I really do believe that there's no such thing as coincidence. People come into our lives for a reason.

I really felt neurotic - it was a neurotic reason - but I had to teach very, very well. That sucked up a lot of oxygen from my time and my creative thinking.

I recommend against a wooden squat rack, for much the same reason that I recommend against a wooden car.

I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.

I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.

I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments.

I saved $725 million on the 90 planes. Just 90. Now there are 3,000 planes that are going to be ordered. On 90 planes I saved $725 million. It's actually a little bit more than that, but it's $725 million. Gen. Mattis, who had to sign the deal when it came to his office, said, "I've never seen anything like this in my life." We went from a company that wanted more money for the planes to a company that cut. And the reason they cut - same planes, same everything - was because of me. I mean, because that's what I do.

Is almost a good enough reason for fear?

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

Is a reason nesessary? I don't know why you would kill someone. But as for saving someone... A logical mind isn't needed, right? -Kudou Shinichi

I say openly that I am an anti-war person, with the point being, show me some reason not to be against this war. You have to be sort of asleep at the switch not to be critical of it. And the parallel between one quagmire we went through in Vietnam and the one we're in now is clear for everybody to see.

I say sorry to my wife about five times a day for various reasons.

I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.

I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it's a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.

I see no reason for recording the obvious.

I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.

I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

I see no reason to stop writing. But the reason isn't always one of your own. The mind is not invulnerable, and it can lose some of its powers.

I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.

Isn’t it obvious, Sage? No, of course it isn’t. I did it so I’d have a reason to be around you — one I knew you couldn’t refuse.

Islam appeals to people because it appeals also to reason.

Is it truly being good if the only reason I behave well is so I can get more loot at Christmas? I mean, really, all I'm doing is saying I can be bribed.

I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn’t point to.

Is the humanism intuitive or labored over?, the answer is: Yes. It begins intuitively, it becomes the reason for writing the thing, and then it's to be considered and fine-tuned and even calculated.

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any reason for our existence, the least must be our ability to report history as it happens so that no one can say: 'we didn't know - no one told us.'

I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.

I studied philosophy and ended on sociology. For some reason, all the advanced courses in philosophy were offered 4:30 to 6:30, so I could never go because of football, so I had to switch.

I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.

I take it that reasonable human conduct is part of the ordinary course of things.

I tell employee of T-Mobile, "Listen, if some of this doesn't make sense to you, what should make sense is the reason I'm telling you - I respect you as an owner and as a partner and I'm going to tell you this all the time. Feel free to tune out.

It doesn't feel good when you're put down, and especially for no uncertain reason.

It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs.