Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

I'm drawn to making movies about contemporary life. The reason I choose institutions is because they provide a limit, a boundary.

I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going.

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school.

I meet people and a lot of times, instead of saying, "Are you from the East Coast?" people just go, "you're from the East Coast, right?", having no reason to have known that. I don't know what that is. Maybe it's just that I'm Jewish.

I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.

I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something - that may not be very clear to me right now - but that I will do.

I'm hyperactive, and I went in the studio and I would just start making records, for no reason.

I'm insanely optimistic. For odd, weird reasons, things always work out.

I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.

I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up.

I'm more than a songwriter. I'm a creative person. Some people you just always see. I won't allow you to see me unless it makes sense. There's a reason to see me.

I'm not a media darling. I'm forever the outsider, for whatever the reason is.

I'm not a planner. I should be more articulate about what the imagery means, but I don't have a good reason for it; it's just there.

I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.

I’m not dangerous,” I breathed. He brought his face toward mine. “You are to me.” And somehow, against all reason, we were kissing.

I'm not competing in Iowa for a reason.

I'm not Joe Paterno. Somebody didn't come and tell me Bernie Fine did something and I'm hiding it. I know nothing. If I saw some reason not to support Bernie, I would not support him. If somebody showed me a reason, proved that reason, I would not support him. But until then, I'll support him until the day I die.

I'm not mad at anybody. I'm not being forced out. It is what it is. I have no reason to lie.

I'm not sure about whether Ukraine will ever be joining. As long as there's a frozen conflict on Ukrainian territory, they can't possibly join. And that's probably one of the reasons why Vladimir Putin is interested in having a frozen conflict there, so that there is no border security.

I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to move on.

I'm not unaware of the fact that probably my biggest audience is lesbians, and is probably the main reason why I've attained the success that I have.

I'm not who you think i am. If you love me, you love me for the wrong reasons.

I'm one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons.

Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

I'm pretty sure I would never do a full frontal in a movie - for personal reasons, I wouldn't really want to show that.

I'm playing great music with great people and so there's no reason to stop.

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

I'm pretty brutal about getting rid of stuff. There wasn't anything where I was like, "Oh, I miss that," because usually it's for a good reason.

I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral grounds, some texture.

I'm totally engaging in cultural stereotyping, no question about it. But I think it's OK because I'm doing it for a reason, for a good reason.

I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people.

I'm sick of these congress meetings. There no reason to meet again. As you know, if there's a congress, I usually win it.

I'm the reason Hulk Hogan lost his hair.

I'm too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I'm not a very sentimental person.

I must say, I am thrilled with my fan base. For some reason some of them are quite young, so they are quite frightened.

I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.

In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority.

I'm very shy. That's probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.

In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail.

In Deism our reason and our belief are happily united.

Indeed, it would be great if we could all be liberated through reason, but I think it only gets us part of the way. After all, someone may have a very logical view, but for other reasons we may still fail to hear what that person says, or we may turn their words around so that they are understood to say the opposite. The task is really to find ways of addressing deep-seated forms of fear and aggression that make it possible to hold to manifestly inconsistent views without quite acknowledging them.

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

Indu'd With sanctity of reason.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

I never fight with reason- I just ignore it.

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for 'Pretty Woman.'

In every moment there is a reason to carry on.