Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

Are terrorists going to be deterred - are terrorists going to be scared if we react violently? No. They love it. That's what they dote on. They dote on violence. They dote on having more reasons to commit more terrorism.

Are you alone?" So that's what this call was about. For some reason, the question made my throat tighten. "No," I said, "Elvis is here. Would you like to talk to him?

Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.

Art does not tolerate reason.

Art is about the spontaneous connection of the artist to his own unconscious - about insight beyond reason. If his insight were reasonable, anyone could do it, but anyone cannot. Only few can, and they are called.

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged it no longer holds.

As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.

As a studio, you have to have a niche. You have to provide a service and there has to be a reason for your being around.

A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order - willed, faked, and so brought into being.

As Christians, though there may be reasons to be troubled, there are greater reasons not to be.

As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless you need them.

As far as career goes, make sure you're in it for the right reasons - and make sure that the work itself is the most important thing.

As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to integrate that.

As far as we know, as a species, the only reason we were put on this planet is to help continue life.

As for being somewhere you're not supposed to be - maybe you're here for a reason, or there is no reason.

As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.

Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.

A state may launch a pre-emptive strike if it has very good reason for thinking that another state is preparing for war.

As to describing me as an outsider throughout, and an outsider through and through - I have no reason to disagree.

At certain points if your life, you like doing more. I'm not sure what causes it or for what reasons; you just do it.

As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.

A termination of one's life is necessary in the scheme of things to provide a logical reason for unselfishness. . . . The fact that there is an end to one's life compels one to take an interest in things that will continue to live after one is dead.

Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.

Atheism in not simply beyond reason, it is contrary to reason.

At least Donald Trump is not politically correct; he's not so concerned about rehearsing and focus grouping every statement he makes and that's one of the reasons I supported him.

At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.

Atlee is a very modest man. And with reason.

A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.

At the end of the day, everybody has to take the right decisions for the right reasons.

At Silicon Valley, I'm extremely sympathetic to the revolutionary response. I not only agree with it emotionally. I agree with it practically. And the only thing I disagree with is, I don't think Donald Trump is that. Trump is blow it up for no good reason at all. You want to actually do revolution with a target, with an idea, with building a new system.

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.

At the end of the rainbow waited the pot of gold. But rainbows were made of faint and fragile gossamer-and gold weighed a ton-and since the world began, gold was the reason to do most anything.

At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.

Authority that is not confirmed by true reason seems weak. Whereas true reason does not need to be confirmed by any authority.

At various points in our lives, or on a quest, and for reasons that often remain obscure, we are driven to make decisions which prove with hindsight to be loaded with meaning. (225)

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

Baseball is the reason I have my apartment, baseball is the reason I'm on the cover of video game. Baseball is what I do.

Baseball gets better for whatever reason.

Bad is always afraid of good and that is the reason why bad tries to eliminate good!

Barack Obama's said some very nice things and he says them well. But if you ask me, the reason that we're looking at somebody who is such an inexperienced senator, who has said some very pleasant but not especially sterling or innovative things, the reason that he's considered such a big deal is simply because he's black.

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.

Because I am a horrible flincher, contact lenses are not an option. I'm always envious of contact-wearers. There are endless reasons to take off one's glasses during the day and, as I have grown older, what I don't see has become increasingly pronounced.

Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast.

Because I had goodwill for all, I thought all were my friends. And then I learned of treachery, that some preferred my end. It wasn't the goodwill I felt that made someone a friend. What handy day, the one I learned the meaning of the word. How good to know my enemies (though their reasons are absurd!)

Because of you, I'm running out of reasons to cry.