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Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.

Some of the wealthy collectors have paid lots of money for artwork that I already did, but I didn't do it with the intention of catering to them. I think part of the reason my work is attractive to people like that is because it doesn't cater to them.

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.

Something I say a lot when it comes to anti-feminist stereotypes is that they exist for a reason.

Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.

Sometimes good days are not always fun, sometimes they are good because of how hard they were and gratifying for those reasons.

Sometimes, I feel the reason I have become a star beyond my films is that I am politically incorrect.

Sometimes I'm not nice for a reason. It's a way to find out what someone's made of.

Sometimes I'll put a lie for philosophical reasons, and sometimes to make the story shorter.

Sometimes people do things that are complicated. For complicated reasons.

Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.

Sometimes the former forces are in the ascendance, and "democratic governance" is eroded, though anyone familiar with intellectual history would expect that the slogans will be passionately proclaimed as they are drained of substantive content. We happen to be living in such an era, but as often before, there is no reason to suppose that the process is irreversible.

Sometimes there are good reasons to do bad things.

Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.

Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason.

Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to.

Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.

Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason.

So take the time to think. Discover your real reason for being here and then have the courage to act on it.

So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living.

So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time.

Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons.

Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must admit, not for purely artistic reasons.

Stacking shelves in a supermarket. The reason I didn't like it is because I'm very clumsy. We had a floor polisher you'd push up and down the aisles, and klutz me would always knock the bottles over in the drinks aisle. Unsurprisingly I got fired.

Still, not much of a reason to live, is it? The fear of being punished for killing yourself.

Staph lives on skin. Thats the reason why many infections start as a boil.

Stencils are good for two reasons; one - they're quick; two - they annoy idiots.

Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.

Studios just sometimes make decisions on their own that you're always flabbergasted by. It just happens that way for whatever reason - not even pointing fingers, it just is.

Strong Reason and good fancy, joyn'd with experience and tryalls, so that we are assured of the good effects of it.

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

Subconscious is motivated by emotion, right? Not reason.

Surely we ought to show them (animals) great kindness and gentleness for many reasons, but, above all, because they are of the same origin as ourselves.

Taiwan and China are related ethnically and close neighbors geographically. There's no reason to resent or to fight against each other.

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.

Sweet instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.

Take a look at the bombing of Serbia in 1999. The US was quite open about the reasons for the bombing. A main reason was to preserve stability and credibility. Serbia was interfering with stability, meaning that it was the one part of the Balkans that was not integrated into the Western-dominated (mostly US-dominated) system.

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.

Take care of your friends. Because there will come a time when you'll be no good to anyone, and the only reason for people to talk to you will be sheer habit.

Tell me what's wrong with this idea: If you're selling to somebody, find someone like that person to sell to them. If you're trying to reach swing voters, if you're trying to reach people on the fence, if you're trying to reach Republicans who are unsure about this candidate... get people who switched! Get people who are registered Republicans. Get people who were George Bush voters who can't bring themselves to do it again. Talk to them, get them to explain what their reasons are, and show them to people. What's wrong with this idea?!

Talk to the man with the reasons why.

Teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime.

Tell him he's wrong. Tell him that even if he's right about waiting, he's right for the wrong reasons, and that makes him all the way wrong.

That is one of the reasons I write: to feel the Presence of God and know He is speaking to me in a very personal way, instructing me, correcting me, redirecting me.

That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

That is one of the reasons I oppose this whole Affirmative Action business. We are not supposed to be judged based on what our ancestors did or suffered. We are supposed to be judged as individuals, based on what we are able to achieve.

That’s the reason, as your congressman, I hold the holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I’ll continue to do that.

That's another reason I did Daredevil: I didn't get killed off in it.