Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

I wanted to leave high school in 1958 and join the Cuban revolution. So the only reason I did not come to join [Fidel] Castro was because my mother would not let me. I was only 16.

I want to be enriched by the music I listen to. That's the reason it never really exists in the mainstream. Because that's not what most people are after.

I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons.

I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.

I was at Live Aid the original, looking like Rolf Harris for some reason. I had a really long beard that day for some reason.

I was born with the wrong sign In the wrong house With the wrong ascendancy I took the wrong road That led to The wrong tendencies I was in the wrong place At the wrong time For the wrong reason And the wrong rhyme On the wrong day Of the wrong week Used the wrong method With the wrong technique Wrong Wrong.

I was compiling a list in my head titled 'Reasons to Get Up: You Don't Have to Leave, but You Can't Pee Here.

I was created in love. For that reason nothing can express my beauty nor liberate me except love alone.

I was divorced from Dr. Woodhull for reasons which to me were sufficient, but I was never his enemy.

I was here for a reason. There was something I was meant not simply to be, but to do- and it wasn't to run or hide or give up the minute things seemed terrifying and impossible.

I was just working on music and reading. It was relaxing. I would just stay up so late for no reason because I was bored.

I was just about to ask you the same thing. I know you followed me. Don't look so suprised. It's called a rearview mirror. Are you stalking me for a specific reason?

I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer.

I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results. The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.

I would absolutely refuse any direct or indirect war service and would try to persuade my friends to do the same, regardless of the reasons for the cause of a war.

I wish my capacity for reason would always translate into action, but it doesn't.

I would like to think there is a reason and a choice behind everything.

I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends.

I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.

I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.

I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented topic, which is part of the reason I started to write.

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

James Brown is the reason I play guitar.

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

Jealousy does not wait for reasons.

Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct.

Jane Gallagher had wanted to know what time it was, but for some reason Holden Caulfield hadn't wanted Stradlater to tell her. When Stradlater refused to tell Holden Caulfield whether or not he had told Jane Gallagher what time it was, Holden Caulfield became enraged and attacked him in a fit or horological savagery, possibly because he was mentally ill and hated anyone byt him knowing what time it was.

Jealous?" "Maybe." "No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse.

Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.

Just because you have a blog doesn't mean that you should, like, lie for no reason.

Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.

Just because one of Arlene's husbands was a murderer is no reason for me to be ugly

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.

Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.

Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.

Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.

Just because we're on schedule is no reason to shoot bad acting. Someone once said to me, 'You're inconsiderate.' And I said, 'Inconsiderate? Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.' It's a collective slap to a million faces at the same time.

Kant's aim was to develop a religion within the boundaries of mere reason (that is, reason unaided by special empirical revelation) and then to ask about existing ecclesiastical faith (especially about Christianity, and the Lutheran Christianity of his time and place) how this revealed faith must be interpreted if it is to be reconciled with reason, and even seen as a wider (though morally optional) extension of a religion of reason.

Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.

Kids and adults have sex for many, many reasons... Put out a question box.

Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

[Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!" [Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

Law is mind without reason.

Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.