Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.

When I was ten years old I wanted to be a taxidermist for some reason, don't ask me why.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

When nothing hampers action, the soul has fewer reasons for action.

When one approach is not working to reach the desired goal, that's not a reason to abandon the goal. Instead, it is time to devise another approach.

When one chooses to be a writer, psychologically there's a reason for that because you like the isolation and you like to be by yourself and you are by nature timid.

When our commitment is diminished for any reason, part of the solution is repentance. Commitment and repentance are closely intertwined.

When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede it.

When power replaces truth as the goal, assertion replaces reason as the path

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

When push-off comes to shove-off, a man must have a reason to get out of bed in the mornings, something more than the threat of bedsores, at any rate.

When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.

When reason rules, money is a blessing.

When somebody comes to your front door, and they're screaming obscenities at you and telling you to come outside, and you've had your life threatened several times, you take it pretty seriously. It's the reason I have a Rottweiler.

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

When reason sleeps, the monsters of repression will emerge.

When something happens, we always say it happens for a reason.

When the going gets tough that should be your inspirational reason to drive on.

When the heart craved something so forcefully, then reason became nothing but helpless observer.

When there is hope in the future, there is power in the present, and since hope is the foundational quality of all change, there is considerable reason to be excited.

When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.

When there is suffering, we look for a reason. That reason is easiest found within oneself.

When the remarkable becomes bizarre, reason turns rancid.

When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.

When we affirm that philosophy begins with wonder , we are affirming in effect that sentiment is prior to reason .

When we anticipate, we're the happiest. Unless you're on antidepressants. The reason you take antidepressants is because you can't anticipate. You think everything's going to be horrible, so it usually is.

When war comes, reason is regarded as treason.

When we love there is no reason why.

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.

When you are able to love someone unconditionally , without reason, you can begin to understand God's unconditional love for you.

Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.

When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.

When you as an American have freedom, the freedom encompasses a lot of things, including the right to do dumb stuff, to do destructive things. You have that right, and liberals somehow, for some reason want to just take control of every aspect of your life as possible, and every time you accede to letting them have it, or big government - you're just letting them have more and more control over your life. Where do you stop that? What's wrong with people regulating themselves? Where did that vanish to?

When you go to the movies with your whole family, it's a different experience. For some reason, it's something that you're all doing together and you take away something special in that.

When you know your reason for existence, it should effect the decisions you make.

When you're running, when you're in elected office, you're surrounded with power. And, so every single day, you have to remind yourself why you're here, and that people put you here for a reason.

Where can an interrogation lead us which does not follow reason in its horizontal course, but seeks to retrace in time that constant vertically which confronts European culture with what it is not?

Wherever I live, if there isn't a restaurant I want to go to of a certain type, then I open it. That's all. For selfish reasons.

Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it.

Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex systems into sub-assemblies, there could be no order and stability- except the order of a dead universe filled with a uniformly distributed gas.

When you can't see any reason for loving a person, you must be loving him as a symbol of something, don't you think so?

When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.

When you have answers, when everything has a reason, when it makes sense to an analytical person, you're going to be more successful. You're going to be more comfortable.

When you have faith in something, it’s your reason to be alive and to fight for it.

When your reasons to move forward outweigh your excuses for staying put, you will move forward.

Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.

Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.

Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die.

Where there is no standard, there can be no improvement. For these reasons, standards are the basis for both maintenance and improvement

Where violence reigns, reason is weak.