Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

I realize that things happen for a reason

I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

I really believe things happen for a reason, and sometimes that reason isn't revealed until much much, much, much later.

I really do believe that there's no such thing as coincidence. People come into our lives for a reason.

I really felt neurotic - it was a neurotic reason - but I had to teach very, very well. That sucked up a lot of oxygen from my time and my creative thinking.

I recommend against a wooden squat rack, for much the same reason that I recommend against a wooden car.

I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.

I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.

I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments.

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

I saved $725 million on the 90 planes. Just 90. Now there are 3,000 planes that are going to be ordered. On 90 planes I saved $725 million. It's actually a little bit more than that, but it's $725 million. Gen. Mattis, who had to sign the deal when it came to his office, said, "I've never seen anything like this in my life." We went from a company that wanted more money for the planes to a company that cut. And the reason they cut - same planes, same everything - was because of me. I mean, because that's what I do.

Is almost a good enough reason for fear?

Is a reason nesessary? I don't know why you would kill someone. But as for saving someone... A logical mind isn't needed, right? -Kudou Shinichi

I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it's a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.

I say sorry to my wife about five times a day for various reasons.

I say openly that I am an anti-war person, with the point being, show me some reason not to be against this war. You have to be sort of asleep at the switch not to be critical of it. And the parallel between one quagmire we went through in Vietnam and the one we're in now is clear for everybody to see.

I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.

I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.

I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.

I see no reason for recording the obvious.

I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

I see no reason to stop writing. But the reason isn't always one of your own. The mind is not invulnerable, and it can lose some of its powers.

Is it truly being good if the only reason I behave well is so I can get more loot at Christmas? I mean, really, all I'm doing is saying I can be bribed.

Islam appeals to people because it appeals also to reason.

Isn’t it obvious, Sage? No, of course it isn’t. I did it so I’d have a reason to be around you — one I knew you couldn’t refuse.

Is the humanism intuitive or labored over?, the answer is: Yes. It begins intuitively, it becomes the reason for writing the thing, and then it's to be considered and fine-tuned and even calculated.

I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.

I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn’t point to.

I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any reason for our existence, the least must be our ability to report history as it happens so that no one can say: 'we didn't know - no one told us.'

I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

I studied philosophy and ended on sociology. For some reason, all the advanced courses in philosophy were offered 4:30 to 6:30, so I could never go because of football, so I had to switch.

I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

I take it that reasonable human conduct is part of the ordinary course of things.

It doesn't take much to lose everything, just a little departure from reason

It didn't escape me that he couldn't seem to stop finding reasons to touch me. Nor did I miss that I didn't want him to stop.

I tell employee of T-Mobile, "Listen, if some of this doesn't make sense to you, what should make sense is the reason I'm telling you - I respect you as an owner and as a partner and I'm going to tell you this all the time. Feel free to tune out.

It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs.

It doesn't feel good when you're put down, and especially for no uncertain reason.

It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance.

It has been said that the only reason for leaving England is to give yourself the pleasure of coming back to it.

It has been said that the reason we establish relationships is to assure ourselves of a witness to our lives.

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason, young people think I'm cool.

I think I'm cold, indeed icy, hard. Then there's another reason, one that goes with my frankness: I don't put on act.

I think [Iranian deal] was the worst deal I've ever seen negotiated. The deal that was made by the [Barack] Obama administration. I think it's a shame that we've had a deal like that and that we had to sign a deal like that and there was no reason to do it and if you're going to do it, have a good deal.

I think everything in life happens for a reason. I always think there's room for me to improve as a person.

I think one of the primary reasons young women don't identify as feminist is because they don't know any feminists and/or don't really have an accurate or comprehensive understanding of what it is - by proudly identifying as a feminist.