Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer.

I wish my capacity for reason would always translate into action, but it doesn't.

I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results. The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.

I would absolutely refuse any direct or indirect war service and would try to persuade my friends to do the same, regardless of the reasons for the cause of a war.

I would like to think there is a reason and a choice behind everything.

I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends.

I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.

I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented topic, which is part of the reason I started to write.

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.

I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.

James Brown is the reason I play guitar.

Jane Gallagher had wanted to know what time it was, but for some reason Holden Caulfield hadn't wanted Stradlater to tell her. When Stradlater refused to tell Holden Caulfield whether or not he had told Jane Gallagher what time it was, Holden Caulfield became enraged and attacked him in a fit or horological savagery, possibly because he was mentally ill and hated anyone byt him knowing what time it was.

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

Jealous?" "Maybe." "No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse.

Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.

Jealousy does not wait for reasons.

Just because you have a blog doesn't mean that you should, like, lie for no reason.

Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.

Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.

Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct.

Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.

Just because we're on schedule is no reason to shoot bad acting. Someone once said to me, 'You're inconsiderate.' And I said, 'Inconsiderate? Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.' It's a collective slap to a million faces at the same time.

Just because one of Arlene's husbands was a murderer is no reason for me to be ugly

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.

Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.

Kids and adults have sex for many, many reasons... Put out a question box.

Kant's aim was to develop a religion within the boundaries of mere reason (that is, reason unaided by special empirical revelation) and then to ask about existing ecclesiastical faith (especially about Christianity, and the Lutheran Christianity of his time and place) how this revealed faith must be interpreted if it is to be reconciled with reason, and even seen as a wider (though morally optional) extension of a religion of reason.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.

Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

[Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!" [Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.

Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

Law is mind without reason.

Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.

Let's just shoot in black and white. Don't explain why. Have no reason for it. Just do it because it's interesting.

Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.

Learning. It's really the primary reason behind everything I do. Programming, entrepreneuring, writing.

Less and less is the question being asked as to whether developments are taking place in a democratic and free way. Europe is in a phase in which this output is no longer sufficiently visible or tangible. Youth unemployment is still far too high, we still haven't solved our currency problem and living conditions in Europe are drifting apart. That is one reason why critics say that our Europe is based on yesteryear's model.

Let but faithful labourers be found, who will prove faithful to God, and there is no reason to fear that God will not prove faithful to them.

Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.

Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.

Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.

Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.

Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .