Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

It is time, I suggest, to stop the practice of allowing Muslims to serve in the U.S. military. The reason is simple: the more devout a Muslim is, the more of a threat he is to national security.

It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.

It is very hard not to see extensive and basic similarities between these (Pagan) religions and the Christian Religion. But somehow Christian scholars have managed not to see it, and this, one must suspect, for dogmatic reasons.

It is understood that nonhuman creatures adapt to their places or they don't live. And for some reason that I can't figure out, even the biologists have excused our own species from that obligation. I think there's going to be a biological penalty to be paid for that eventually.

It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.

It makes me feel like a woman. It makes me feel that all the things about my body are suddenly there for a reason. It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside you is amazing.

It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.

It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well!

I took opera lessons. I can't read music to save my life, but I would just copy and get away with it. I think that they thought I could read music, but I can't. I would just listen. It was really me just mimicking. That's one of the reasons I decided I didn't want to do that anymore.

I took only twice a time-out, once, when I was hurt, and a second time, when I much felt I was exhausted out of personal reasons.

I try to listen to stuff that makes me happy for other reasons, rather than being musically inspiring.

I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority.

It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that they come to with their problems.

It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason.

It's a sin to hate, and for that reason alone, we must not hate the Normans... We can, however, thoroughly dislike them, Alice.

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage

It's classic the way liberalism works. If anybody has an advantage over anybody for any reason, it's not permitted. It's not fair. And it's got to be regulated and equalized. And in the process, competition's destroyed and when competition goes, so do consumer advantages.

It's boredom. No other reason than that.

It's clear to me that many weapons sales are very short-sighted. The U.S. and other arms-producing countries sell weapons for a variety of reasons, but most sales involve strategic interest or profit motivation, or both.

It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.

It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always to do.

It's foolish to be prejudiced. There are so many reasons to hate people on an individual basis.

It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid.

It's funny, when you look back in history books or American cookery books, one of the reasons that the quinces and cranberries are used so often is because of their natural jelling properties.

It's fascinating how all of us, everyday, rely - at some point, to some extent, for some reason - on faith in our life. Whether it's God or not, or "Please help me!

It's funny shooting movies because you get to see clubs during daylight hours, which no one should ever see - it's not pretty; there's a reason the lighting is dim in there.

It's my job to be better than the rest, and that's enough reason to go for me. It's my job to be better than the rest, and that makes the day for me.

It's important to understand the policy of the U.S. towards North Korea is to deny North Korea possession of a nuclear weapon and the ability to deliver that weapon. Our strategy has been to undertake this peaceful pressure campaign we call it enabled by the four no's.The four no's being that we do not seek regime change, a regime collapse, an accelerated reunification of the peninsula, and we do not seek a reason to send our forces north of the demilitarized zone.

It's never much fun at school - it's just dates. Then as you get older, for some reason, you get more interested.

It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.

It's not a pretty picture, but there are reasons for hope.

Its not weird being recognised, but its weird having to stop what youre doing to take pictures or sign something. But the fans are the reason you have your success, so it comes with the territory.

It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.

It's not exactly annoying but definitely saddening to see people getting into blogging for completely the wrong reasons. Getting perks is not a given when blogging.

It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.

It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.

It's okay to cry. There's no reason to hold back.

Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!

It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.

It's really difficult to get good information, and there's a reason for that. They're not letting journalists in. Whenever something really bad is happening, we always are dealing with uncertain information. Certainly what is happening there is qualitatively different from what happening in Abyei.

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

It's so easy to judge everybody and for some reason extra weight is the one thing everything feels OK to joke about.

It's so hard to say what you really mean. For any number of reasons: to protect yourself, or if you just can't find the words.

It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.

It's the reason the United States fell into the Patriot Act - because they were reacting.