Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

Touring is always important to me. It's like a big IOU to my fans, because I know they are the reason I exist.

To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.

To walk into the Jefferson memorial is to be in a temple of the pure idolatry of reason

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

Troubadours travelled from town to town. They didn't really sing too good, which is the main reason they kept going.

Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.

Twice we stood beside each other at the altar, Rosie. Twice. And twice we got it wrong. I needed you to be there for my wedding day but I was too stupid to see that I needed you to be the reason for my wedding day. But we got it all wrong.

'Unbelievers' was a song that we felt like we could tackle, so that's one of the reasons we wanted to start playing it live, we really believed in that song and we still believe in that song a lot.

Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.

Under Sharia law, If a woman has money, she can invest her money. The thing is, what we are concerned about is, in the public arena, there's a difference between a man and a woman. We would have complete segregation in the public arena, but other than that, if she wants to go to the market, if she wants to go to visit her relatives or for medicine or for education. There's a whole host of reasons why she would be out and about but, what we are saying is she not obliged to work. That is the job of the man.

Unfortunately, there's no greater rhyme or reason as to why it would be me. And since there is no answer as to why me, it's not a question I feel really entitled to ask.

Unless you got a really good reason, you should be nice.

... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.

Unless you have a very good reason, never wake up anybody or anything! Let the sleeper sleep in peace.

Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself.

Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.

Unreached peoples are unreached for a reason. They're hard, difficult, and dangerous to reach. All the easy ones are taken

Unshakable faith is only that which can face reason in all human epochs.

Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It's the most mainstream thing there is.

Usually, I end up being the frumpy or mentally challenged or in 'Reasons to Be Pretty', regular. Or a weirdo. I play a lot of weirdos.

Usually there's no specific reason for loneliness - it's a broad feeling.

Utility is the emotion pleading to be let into the house of pure reason and thereby enriching it.

Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

Violence against women is clearly not solved, not at all solved, and the reasons for it, which are controlling women's bodies in order to control reproduction, are definitely not solved.

Very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons.

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

Virtue is nothing else than right reason

Vee never needed a reason to do something stupid. Sad thing was, most of the time I didn't either.

Very, very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons. It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. You don't feel that you're being tested, as it were.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.

War is...a trinity of violence, chance, and reason.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

We always use plywood rather than MDF for structural stuff for the same reasons [stability].

We all have a history of digital texts, posts, messages, reposts/tweets that are sitting out there and can be used by anyone for any reason.

We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we don’t is because it is detrimental to teamwork.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

We all die in the end, but there's no reason to die in the middle.

We all must recognize that homeland security funds should be allocated by threat and no other reason.

We also wanted to change the story - change the approach to the 21st century on energy, on education, on transportation, on infrastructure, generally, and it laid the groundwork for that. And one of the reasons I'm doing this trip is not only to say what we did worked, but to say we should do more of this.