Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

people commit suicide for only one reason - to escape torment.

People crave a conspiracy for the same reason they crave a god.

People do many things for many reasons. Sometimes, what you do you have no control over, because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.

People do lose weight on an Atkins diet. The reason they lose weight is because of calorie reduction. If a person's caloric intake has not fallen, if they are really shoveling in the steak, they don't lose weight.

People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.

People elect the President for reasons that have nothing to do with his ability to be president.

People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.

People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love.

People fall in love for mysterious reasons.

people do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons.

People have a lot less leniency for some reason for women straying from a relationship than they do for men.

People go into things for the wrong reasons.

People in Hong Kong are stylish and fashionable, which is one of the many reasons making Hong Kong itself such an energetic place.

People say I stole a lot of bases. I stole the bases for a reason. I crossed the plate.

People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. they did not give or ask for reasons.

People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.

People wanted to be friends with me for not the right reasons. They'd introduce me to somebody else as the Olympian or the swimmer. I didn't want to stand out. I wanted to blend in.

People who've written about Abraham Lincoln's writing emphasize how logical he was. His writing was a syllogistic tool. He would say, if A, then B, and he would reason through it. His late writing especially is so tight and so beautifully reasoned.

Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and the audience; that all his efforts, however strenuous or glamorous, be made in the service of the composer's meaning - the music itself, which, after all, is the whole reason for the conductor's existence.

Perhaps the Mad Hatter had a reason for calling time Him.

Perhaps women are lied to more often because managers think they're not going to push back. If you're told, "We don't have the budget right now" and have no access to the budget to prove otherwise, there's not much you can do, but there's no reason why you can't ask if you can reassess in six months. Then, spend those six months chronicling every good thing you do so you return with a stack of data that proves you need that raise.

Personally, I am uneasy about the notion of "a politically engaged university," for reasons I wrote about over 30 years ago, at the height of protest and resistance (reprinted in For Reasons of State).

Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.

Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.

Photography's relationship with pornography is as old as photography. That kind of unholy relationship is formed from the very beginning, and there's a reason why: it's thoroughly enjoyable to be that voyeuristic. Voyeurism is a very old modality, and most of the history of photography is in some way related voyeurism.

Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul.

Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.

Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts

Poems have always been a place for questions for me. Not answers. And I have a lot of questions these days. One of the reasons I've felt so connected to poetry throughout the years is because it's the only art form that has breath built into it. And I need that breath now. I need that breath so much. So, yes, it is a refuge for me. Absolutely.

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts

Please give reason. Raised taxes; marching us off to war again; approved more NSA snooping. WHO ARE THEY?!

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

Political statements are usually more direct, and it works with the upbeat music as well, for some reason, the directness of your statements.

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.

Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.

Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.

Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.

Pretty much the worst reason to bomb someone is to prove that you're willing to bomb someone.

Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.

Probably one of the reasons I don't work in the mainstream anymore is that I'm only interested in making the stuff I want to make

Producer Ed Pressman had a book about Diane Arbus - it's the only biography that exists - and there had been many Diane Arbus scripts. Many. I don't even know how many over the years. And it's sort of a cursed project, for lots of reasons. There's probably some pile somewhere of all these weird attempts, all these portraitures that can't get made.

Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits

Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.

Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.

Public reason arguments can be good or bad just like other arguments.

Purchasing power parities are not a reasonable method for comparing households across countries or currencies. The reason for this is simply that PPPs are sensitive to the prices of all the commodities, goods and services, that households are consuming worldwide, with each commodity weighted in the calculations according to its share in international household consumption expenditure.

Put the walls up. Get the better walls. There's no reason the army website should be hacked.