Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

[Andre] Gide can say it to me: it is a writer's morality only addressed to a few privileged people. For that reason it no longer interests me.

And suddenly you're all i need the reason why I smile<3

And so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

And these are your reasons, my lord?" "Do you think I have others?" said Lord Vetinari. "My motives, as ever, are entirely transparent." Hughnon reflected that 'entirely transparent' meant either that you could see right through them or that you couldn't see them at all.

And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.

And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions.

And when reality goes, sanity has no reason.

And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.

And yet, something inside you is so horrible or you're such a coward or whatever the reason that you decide that you have to end it. Robin Williams, at 63, did that today.

An educated mind is practiced in the uses of reason, which inevitably leads to a skeptical outlook.

An established government has an infinite advantage, by that very circumstance of its being established--the bulk of mankind being governed by authority, not reason, and never attributing authority to anything that has not the recommendation of antiquity.

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.

anger based on calculated reason is more dangerous than anger based on blind hate

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.

Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is... We've all heard that

Anyone who thinks they're happy should really see a doctor, because there is no reason to be happy.

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

Anything Anytime Anyplace For No Reason At All (or AAAFNRAA)

Anything I do, I always have a reason for.

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

Anything you think you know about about God, that you can't find in the person of Jesus, you have reason to question.

Any time you're mentioned in the same breath as Tony Esposito, for whatever reason, it's a great honor. He's one of my idols. He's one of the greatest of all time.

A pink sunset - one of the reasons I moved to the seaside in Margate.

A poison can hardly be called safe if for some reason specific to me it's ineffective against, say, my body. But the power of story on the human mind is such that anecdote is often more persuasive than numbers. That's why news stories often concretize the impact of a change in government policy by following the story of one person.

Apple stood for something and had a reason for being that wasn't just about making money.

A reasonable fine is such as the law will judge to be so . . . but what a reasonable fine is, and who shall be the judge of it, the law has established no rule.

A rational process is a moral process.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

Are terrorists going to be deterred - are terrorists going to be scared if we react violently? No. They love it. That's what they dote on. They dote on violence. They dote on having more reasons to commit more terrorism.

A prolonged silence ensues. The reason for the silence is our growing interest one for the other. No one is aware of it, no one yet; no one? am I quite sure?

A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.

Are you alone?" So that's what this call was about. For some reason, the question made my throat tighten. "No," I said, "Elvis is here. Would you like to talk to him?

Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.

Art does not tolerate reason.

Art is about the spontaneous connection of the artist to his own unconscious - about insight beyond reason. If his insight were reasonable, anyone could do it, but anyone cannot. Only few can, and they are called.

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.

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged it no longer holds.

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 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 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 for being somewhere you're not supposed to be - maybe you're here for a reason, or there is no reason.

As far as we know, as a species, the only reason we were put on this planet is to help continue life.