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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

The problem is there's a new group. I'm talking about this tiny slice of people that have gotten way too fired up about the Trump thing for the wrong reasons. I'm talking about these people that as soon as Trump won, they're like, we don't have to pretend like we're not racist anymore. We don't have to pretend anymore. We can be racist again. Whoa, whoa, whoa, no, no. If you're one of these people, please go back to pretending.

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.... He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.

The question of meaning goes all the way down: if human life as a whole is meaningless, so is everything that occurs or belongs within it. Since that's not a thought it is easy to live with, there is good reason to search for life's meaning.

The range of circumstances in which it is possible to presuppose the presence of a combination is very limited. The presence of such circumstances is the reason for the genesis of the idea in the master's brain.

The real hell of life is that everyone has his reasons.

The reality is that it is mainly a Republican scandal for several reasons.

The real reason for health claims is well established: health claims sell food products.

The real reason we haven't had peace is because of a persistent refusal of the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish state in any border.

There are all kinds of mix tapes. There is always a reason to make one.

There always should be something hanging unfinished before a scene ends so that there's a reason for going to the next scene.

There are always going to be reasons to do the wrong thing. And the smarter the person, the better the reasons. That doesn't make it right.

There are always going to be things you don’t like about yourself or reasons to compare yourself to others, but once you realize that you only get one you, it’s best to just love yourself.

There are a million reasons why you can't. Focus on the few reasons why you can.

There are a whole variety of reasons I want to be attorney general, a whole variety of things that I do as attorney general that go beyond national security.

There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

There are certain relationships in our lives that implode, and it can feel really inexplicable and terrifying. You don't know why, and sometimes relationships end for reasons that one person keeps from the other person, and it's just totally unclear, and it just goes south and it's heartbreaking.

There are days when you're in a good groove and the actor really understands the part and comes as prepared every day as you are and is so inside it. And then there's the day where, for whatever reason, it's just a harder slog. And I feel like those are the days where all the preparation and everything becomes more necessary because you have to find a third route there.

There are certainly valid reasons for taking a company private, and it's also possible that C.E.O.s perform better when monitored by a small number of owners in a private company rather than by the dispersed and often uninterested shareholders of a public corporation.

There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.

There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.

There are far more reasons for death than there are for life.

There are many people who do view scientific research as alienating from religion and from God, and when so many people do, there must be some reason for it.

There are many people who have big plans but their big plans never come true. The reason is, too many people have big plans but fail to keep their small agreements.

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason.

There are more reasons for people's actions than the number of actions that are actually set in motion.

There are nature and nurture components to virtually every behavior a human experiences. The research effort lies only in finding the relevant percentages, not on some absolute value. That's one of the reasons behavioral scientists have to be really good statisticians.

There are more scriptural reasons to oppose homophobia than to oppose homosexuality.

There are no dark sinister reasons for my resignation.

There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment.

There are no good reasons to believe in god.

There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.

There are no excuses. There are no good reasons.

There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.

There are only 2 reasons that someone would want something in their life and not get it. First, they don't know what to do and second, they know what to do and don't know how to get themselves to do it consistently, if at all.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting.

There are people who don't vote for a lot of reasons, sometimes as a statement.

There are reasons, and then there are excuses.

There are reasons to have rules and regulations. That I understand. Authority is a different thing. Authority is to maintain its own position by increasing its power and domination over those people it is supposedly protecting.

there are scores of thousands of women who are denominated prostitutes, and who are supported by hundreds of thousands of men who should, for like reasons, also be denominated prostitutes, since what will change a woman into a prostitute must also necessarily change a man into the same.

There are so many reasons to cook and bake. Yes, good food is certainly one of them, but so is the sense of satisfaction you get when you make something with your own hands, when you know that you can take care of yourself and feed yourself well and when you know that you can take care of and feed others.

There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as my picture unfolded, it emphatically suggested another direction... I always accept the risk and go for it. I'm convinced that at such times my painting is wiser than I am.

There are still very few companies run by women these days. And, clearly, there are many reasons for that, including what many see as the role of both unconscious bias and outright sexism.

There are things in our lives that take up an enormous importance and that become very dominant effects in our biography. And that comes out of a variety of reasons, but fundamentally comes out of how that particular experience connects with your effective systems of response.

There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.

There are two conflicting philosophies that I love: "Everything happens for a reason," as well as "you can change everything that you have control over.