Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

Subconscious is motivated by emotion, right? Not reason.

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

Surely we ought to show them (animals) great kindness and gentleness for many reasons, but, above all, because they are of the same origin as ourselves.

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.

Sweet instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.

Taiwan and China are related ethnically and close neighbors geographically. There's no reason to resent or to fight against each other.

Take a look at the bombing of Serbia in 1999. The US was quite open about the reasons for the bombing. A main reason was to preserve stability and credibility. Serbia was interfering with stability, meaning that it was the one part of the Balkans that was not integrated into the Western-dominated (mostly US-dominated) system.

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.

Take care of your friends. Because there will come a time when you'll be no good to anyone, and the only reason for people to talk to you will be sheer habit.

Talk to the man with the reasons why.

Teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime.

Tell me what's wrong with this idea: If you're selling to somebody, find someone like that person to sell to them. If you're trying to reach swing voters, if you're trying to reach people on the fence, if you're trying to reach Republicans who are unsure about this candidate... get people who switched! Get people who are registered Republicans. Get people who were George Bush voters who can't bring themselves to do it again. Talk to them, get them to explain what their reasons are, and show them to people. What's wrong with this idea?!

Tell him he's wrong. Tell him that even if he's right about waiting, he's right for the wrong reasons, and that makes him all the way wrong.

That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

That is one of the reasons I oppose this whole Affirmative Action business. We are not supposed to be judged based on what our ancestors did or suffered. We are supposed to be judged as individuals, based on what we are able to achieve.

That is one of the reasons I write: to feel the Presence of God and know He is speaking to me in a very personal way, instructing me, correcting me, redirecting me.

That's another reason I keep putting marriage off. I know I want something like what you two share, and I'm not sure I've found it yet. I'm not sure I ever will. And with love like that...they say anything's possible, right?

That's another reason I did Daredevil: I didn't get killed off in it.

That rule must be absolutely observed which states that, except for the most serious reasons and with the Apostolic See, no innovations are to be introduced into the holy rites of the liturgy.

That's part of the reason I called the album 'Shoot From The Hip.' I did feel it was time to open up more.

That's one of the reasons I'm successful, I do tend to do the right thing.

That’s the reason, as your congressman, I hold the holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I’ll continue to do that.

That's the reason I'm not the one that's dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful.

That's the hard part of overdosing on cherries-you have all the pits to tell you exactly how many you ate. Not more or less. Exactly. One-seed fruits really bother me for that reason. That's why I'd always rather eat raisins than prunes. Prune pits are even more imposing than cherry pits.

That's the reason I left the networks. I wanted to write and report and coanchor.

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

That the Creator himself comes to us and becomes our ransom - this is the reason for our rejoicing.

That was my decision, so I have to be responsible for that. It was one of the biggest mistakes of my life and I don't have a good reason for why I wanted to come back, I don't have a good reason for doing it all.

That was all he said, except for "Aaaeerrgghhh." Which is not really a word. But the reason that he screamed "Aaaeerrgghhh" was that Franco had bitten him savegly on the wrist.

That was one of the reasons I took the role [of Mayor Amanda Rosewater in Defiance] - to be a part of something groundbreaking interested me.

The #1 reasons are unsuccessful is their inability to lead themselves.

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.

The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered.

The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.

The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.

The appeal to force is the abandonment of reason.

The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.

Theatre is a weapon. For that reason it must be fought for.

The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.

The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but he who disobeys the other is a fool.

The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.

The Beatles tried to do some tours and found it to be completely pointless and became a non-touring band after that, and with very good reason.

The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his sour this nakedness too harsh for volunteers, for the reason, felt but inarticulate, that there he found himself indubitably free.

The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious...that unconscious which has more understanding than our lucidity.

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything I am being sympathetic, not satiric for the very best reasons.

The best reason to go to the movies is to be with other people. Eating the popcorn, being with other people you don't know.

The best reason for listening to and learning from the poor is that this is one way God is revealed to us.

The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint.