Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

I try to listen to stuff that makes me happy for other reasons, rather than being musically inspiring.

I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority.

It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that they come to with their problems.

It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason.

It's a sin to hate, and for that reason alone, we must not hate the Normans... We can, however, thoroughly dislike them, Alice.

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage

It's classic the way liberalism works. If anybody has an advantage over anybody for any reason, it's not permitted. It's not fair. And it's got to be regulated and equalized. And in the process, competition's destroyed and when competition goes, so do consumer advantages.

It's boredom. No other reason than that.

It's clear to me that many weapons sales are very short-sighted. The U.S. and other arms-producing countries sell weapons for a variety of reasons, but most sales involve strategic interest or profit motivation, or both.

It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.

It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always to do.

It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid.

It's fascinating how all of us, everyday, rely - at some point, to some extent, for some reason - on faith in our life. Whether it's God or not, or "Please help me!

It's foolish to be prejudiced. There are so many reasons to hate people on an individual basis.

It's funny, when you look back in history books or American cookery books, one of the reasons that the quinces and cranberries are used so often is because of their natural jelling properties.

It's funny shooting movies because you get to see clubs during daylight hours, which no one should ever see - it's not pretty; there's a reason the lighting is dim in there.

It's important to understand the policy of the U.S. towards North Korea is to deny North Korea possession of a nuclear weapon and the ability to deliver that weapon. Our strategy has been to undertake this peaceful pressure campaign we call it enabled by the four no's.The four no's being that we do not seek regime change, a regime collapse, an accelerated reunification of the peninsula, and we do not seek a reason to send our forces north of the demilitarized zone.

It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.

It's my job to be better than the rest, and that's enough reason to go for me. It's my job to be better than the rest, and that makes the day for me.

It's never much fun at school - it's just dates. Then as you get older, for some reason, you get more interested.

It's not a pretty picture, but there are reasons for hope.

It's not exactly annoying but definitely saddening to see people getting into blogging for completely the wrong reasons. Getting perks is not a given when blogging.

Its not weird being recognised, but its weird having to stop what youre doing to take pictures or sign something. But the fans are the reason you have your success, so it comes with the territory.

It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.

It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.

It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.

Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!

It's okay to cry. There's no reason to hold back.

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

It's really difficult to get good information, and there's a reason for that. They're not letting journalists in. Whenever something really bad is happening, we always are dealing with uncertain information. Certainly what is happening there is qualitatively different from what happening in Abyei.

It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.

It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.

It's so easy to judge everybody and for some reason extra weight is the one thing everything feels OK to joke about.

It's so hard to say what you really mean. For any number of reasons: to protect yourself, or if you just can't find the words.

It's the reason the United States fell into the Patriot Act - because they were reacting.

It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living, in fact.

It used to be that you would go into a writing program and what you would learn was how to write a short story. You would pick up the magazines and you would be taught from the magazines how to write a short story. Nowadays student writers are learning to write novels because that market is gone, so the ones who are drawn to the form are doing it really for reasons of their own and that's really exciting.

It's you. You deserve this. There is a reason this is happening to you.

It was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons I don't really comprehend.

It was all absurd, without reason or meaning. People who didn't know each other were going to kill each other over a hill none of them cared about

It's wrong to discriminate based on skin color when there are so many other reasons not to like someone.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

It was never my intention to marry anybody. Economics are basically the only reason to get married, but I'm very glad I did it.

It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.

It was terrifying when Aaron Sorkin announced that he was leaving West Wing, he and Tommy Schlamme. We felt like our parents were abandoning us. It was a tremendously sad day and I'm sure I will never understand exactly all the reasons why that happened.

It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason

It wouldn't kill you to get me an iced coffee." "No, but not getting killed doing something is not a very compelling reason to do it.