Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.

Of all the reasons for wanting to write, the only one that nurtures us through time is love of the work itself.

of the world and drudgery of business , seeks a pretense of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence.

Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.

Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself.

Once man's connection to the divine is denied, you can reason yourself from here to anywhere.

Once I stopped with the excuses, my life has changed. There's no reason for me to lose any more.

Once socialism replaces capitalism, reason will determine the policies of states.

Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.

Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

One can always reason with reason.

One big reason I do what I do is there's no two days alike. It's not work for me. It's my life. My passion.

One of reasons I was able to go to university was because of the sacrifices my family made.

One of the central developments of 19th century mathematics involved a dramatic increase in the standards of mathematical rigor. This was for a variety of reasons, but the short version is that there was a need to be stricter about the standards of proof, because certain familiar modes of reasoning had started to lead people astray, or at least threatened to do so.

One of the biggest reasons I bought the Lakers was to beat the Celtics.

One of the greatest myths of all time is that so-called civilized man is no longer an animal, and for that reason can strive to disarm himself and grow fat with false concepts.

One of the main reasons that I love doing what I do is because it's unpredictable and I don't know what's coming next. When you're creating work, it's up to you whether it's an exciting experience or not.

One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought.

One of the most critical reasons believers experience defeat is because we categorize only a few areas of our lives as Christ's arena.

One of the reasons I like to hang out with scholarly types is they can do a broad reach conceptualization of things that is astonishing to me. I'm really good at the particulars but I have to do an immense amount of critical thinking to make something larger of it.

One of the reasons I went back to music even though I was extremely ill was because I started to forget who I was aside from being sick. And when I'm performing, or even lecturing, it's like I'm myself again, and that was a really amazing discovery - that, all of a sudden, I have a get-out-of-jail-free card.

One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old.

One of the reasons I really love low budget filmmaking is you don't have to think about that as much. You can have more fun and be more playful and be freer creatively.

One of the reasons I started acting was to re-make The Karate Kid, but Jaden Smith beat me to it.

One of the reasons I still do stand-up is because it was so hard in the beginning that I feel like it would be such a shame not to redeem it that it's all fun.

One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

One of the reasons my ex-husband and I broke up is that he stopped eating my food.

One of the reasons I like a suit is because I've never been that keen on my body. The shape a suit presents is always going to be better than anything I can do.

One of the reasons I picked Pacifica was because, for a lot of classes and for your thesis, you could do artwork because of the Jungian slant of it all, and that really called to me.

One of the reasons I thought a censure resolution was appropriate was because if somebody had censured Nixon or even if a resolution of either house had passed, saying what you're doing is unacceptable to Congress, that shot across the bow might have straightened him up.

One of the reasons that Donald Trump cannot properly respond to what was an obvious proper response from an America president is the people in his government.

One of the reasons people aren't rich is because almost everyone has more excuses than money.

One of the reasons people get old - lose their aliveness - is that they get weighed down by all of their stuff.

One of the reasons the deficit got as big as it did, frankly, was because of the economic slowdown, the fall-off in deficits, the terrorist attacks. A significant chunk was taken out of the economy by what happened after the attacks of 9/11.

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

One of the reasons why I chose to live in New York was that there is this sense of your environment constantly changing.

One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better.

One of the reasons I came into politics was because I thought I lacked the skills to be a social worker.

One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either.

One of the reasons I'm drawn to civil libertarianism as opposed to communitarianism is that I don't worry so much about the rights of the majority; a majority is quite capable of enforcing and protecting its own rights.

One of the reasons intermittent fasting can work is that it reconnects you with what hunger feels like.

One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell.

One of the reasons I think Barack Obama had the policy he did was purposely to create this flood of refugees from Syria. He wanted them!

One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.

One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with the reader.

One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them.