Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Atlee is a very modest man. And with reason.

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

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, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.

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

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.

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

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

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.

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

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

Baseball gets better for whatever reason.

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.

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.

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

Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

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 I've been at it so long and very steadily, I have a lot of credits, but I probably have twice as many scripts that were never made for whatever reason.

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.

Because I can’t live without Della. I don’t want to. She’s the reason I get up in the mornings - Woods

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

Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge, all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. Nothing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all.

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

Because we bring so little is no reason to bring nothing.

Before I met her, I drank and swore without reason... now I have a reason.

Be happy for no reason, like a child.