Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.

Twice we stood beside each other at the altar, Rosie. Twice. And twice we got it wrong. I needed you to be there for my wedding day but I was too stupid to see that I needed you to be the reason for my wedding day. But we got it all wrong.

'Unbelievers' was a song that we felt like we could tackle, so that's one of the reasons we wanted to start playing it live, we really believed in that song and we still believe in that song a lot.

Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.

Under Sharia law, If a woman has money, she can invest her money. The thing is, what we are concerned about is, in the public arena, there's a difference between a man and a woman. We would have complete segregation in the public arena, but other than that, if she wants to go to the market, if she wants to go to visit her relatives or for medicine or for education. There's a whole host of reasons why she would be out and about but, what we are saying is she not obliged to work. That is the job of the man.

Unfortunately, there's no greater rhyme or reason as to why it would be me. And since there is no answer as to why me, it's not a question I feel really entitled to ask.

Unless you got a really good reason, you should be nice.

... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.

Unless you have a very good reason, never wake up anybody or anything! Let the sleeper sleep in peace.

Unreached peoples are unreached for a reason. They're hard, difficult, and dangerous to reach. All the easy ones are taken

Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself.

Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.

Unshakable faith is only that which can face reason in all human epochs.

Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It's the most mainstream thing there is.

Usually, I end up being the frumpy or mentally challenged or in 'Reasons to Be Pretty', regular. Or a weirdo. I play a lot of weirdos.

Usually there's no specific reason for loneliness - it's a broad feeling.

Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.

Utility is the emotion pleading to be let into the house of pure reason and thereby enriching it.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

Vee never needed a reason to do something stupid. Sad thing was, most of the time I didn't either.

Very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons.

Very, very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons. It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. You don't feel that you're being tested, as it were.

Violence against women is clearly not solved, not at all solved, and the reasons for it, which are controlling women's bodies in order to control reproduction, are definitely not solved.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Virtue is nothing else than right reason

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.

War is...a trinity of violence, chance, and reason.

Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons.

We all must recognize that homeland security funds should be allocated by threat and no other reason.

We all have a history of digital texts, posts, messages, reposts/tweets that are sitting out there and can be used by anyone for any reason.

We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we don’t is because it is detrimental to teamwork.

We all die in the end, but there's no reason to die in the middle.

We also wanted to change the story - change the approach to the 21st century on energy, on education, on transportation, on infrastructure, generally, and it laid the groundwork for that. And one of the reasons I'm doing this trip is not only to say what we did worked, but to say we should do more of this.

We always use plywood rather than MDF for structural stuff for the same reasons [stability].

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.

We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer.

We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.

We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason--because it clashes with our own.

We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

...we ask: Why suicide? We search for reasons, causes, and so on.... We follow the course of the life he has now so suddenly terminated as far back as we can. For days we are preoccupied with the question: Why suicide? We recollect details. And yet we must say that everything in the suicide's life- for now we know that all his life he was a suicide, led a suicide's existence- is part of the cause, the reason, for his suicide.

We can always find noble reasons for what we want to do.

We can live nuanced, complicated, exciting lives with no reason for limitation.