Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

You can always find reasons to work. There will always be one more thing to do. But when people don't take time out, they stop being productive. They stop being happy, and that affects the morale of everyone around them.

You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.

You can have a great script, and it can be a great show, but for whatever reason, it just doesn't take the public's interest.

You can have examples of reasons to hate people, but if you analyze those reasons it's like, Oh, I'm hating that person based on one thing they did, but I don't actually know them well enough to hate them.

You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.

You cannot reason people into loving those whom they are not drawn to love; they cannot reason themselves into it; and there are some contrarieties of temper which are too strong even for the obligations of relationship.

You can only have two things in life, reasons and results. Reasons don't count.

You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.

You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.

You can't entirely compare between the United States and Greece for a range of reasons, not just because of the size of the economy.

You can't judge my choices without understanding my reasons.

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.

You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in various shoes and experience anything.

You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.

You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

You don’t need a reason to be happy...your desire to be so is sufficient.

You don't need a reason to divorce someone you can't stand.

You do realise modern social mores exist for a reason?" "I was hungry, allowances should be made.

You do stand-up because you have to do it. If you're doing it to become 'famous,' you're wrong. If you're doing it to become a millionaire, you're doing it for the wrong reasons. In 2003, I was flat broke. I'd been doing stand-up for 14 years at that point. I loved it and just kept at it.

You do what you do - in the circumstances in which you find yourself - because of the way you are. So if you're going to be ultimately responsible for what you do, you're going to have to be ultimately responsible for the way you are - at least in certain mental respects. But you can't be ultimately responsible for the way you are (for the reasons just given). So you can't be ultimately responsible for what you do.

You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and then demolish them.

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.

You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

You have to convince your players that the only reason a play failed was that they didn't execute properly.

You have to think there's a reason for everything. When a door closes another door opens.

You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.

You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy.

You know, sound was still a fairly new thing when I came into movies. And the reason musicals happened is because of sound. They could put music in the picture! That's how it all began.

You know, the only reason net neutrality is controversial is because it's complicated.

You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.

You know what I think? I think there's a reason for everything. And I think that there's a plan for everyone. And I think that God has a big plan for me. Just not in this life.

You know the reason I love the stars is because we can't hurt them: we can't burn them, we can't melt them , we can't make them overflow, we can't flood them or burn them up—so we keep reacing for them

You look angry," he said. "You put me on hold." "For a very good reason." "You put me," she said very, very slowly, "on hold.

You need to quickly recognize when and why you're being spooned bullshit. That happens very often, but it happens for a reason.

You must be prepared and know the reason why you dance.

You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.

You never know how things will work out. After all the bad reasons in the world, some good came out.

"You only live once" is also an equally compelling reason not to do something

You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.

You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.

You never know how things work and what exactly is going to grab an audience. Sometimes even the best material and the best collection of people interpreting that material just for some reason doesn't fly with people. There are a lot of TV shows or movies that maybe aren't as good as others that do work when it comes to finding an audience. It's a mystery, that whole thing. If somebody figured it out, this would be quite a great industry.

You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.

Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it.

You're always looking for the ultimate. It's kind of like journeying to Ixtlan. You're never going to get there, but that is no reason not to try.

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

You're filled with so much life. Is there any reason why all of us are not full of life?

You're here for a reason and it's not to hoard a lot of physical stuff.