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My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.

My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.

My own reasons for favouring talk of natural kinds is just that I believe the best accounts of the success of scientific theories presupposes the existence of natural kinds.

My pictures are never pre-visualized or planned. I feel strongly that pictures must come from contact with things at the time and place of taking. At such times, I rely on intuitive, perceptual responses to guide me, using reason only after the final print is made to accept or reject the results of my work.

My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.

My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.

My reasons are the same as for any mathematical conjecture: (1) It is a legitimate mathematical possibility, and (2) I do not know.

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

My screenplays are very detailed. The reason they're detailed... you have to think on your feet. You have to be ready to change because there are no such things as ideal conditions.

Mysticism and the supernatural are embedded in the show - it's called 'Da Vinci's Demons' for a reason, and it's not just metaphorical.

Mystery, investigation, false leads, solution - we associate that structure with genre fiction, but it exists in our real lives, too. There's no reason why literary fiction shouldn't be able to acknowledge that and make it fresh.

My teacher knew that I always had a girlfriend. For some reason, he never said anything to me about it.

Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.

My wife (Maria) is the best reason to come home.

My work has always been important to me. The reason I continue to do it is because it's so much fun for me. I love my work and so that's what keeps me in the game.

My work is a part of me and I know it. I have no reason to try to pick one part of me out from the rest. I only see my work, or rather I should say I see my work only telling my part of the human experience.

My work doesn't have the same rules as, say, Andy [Warhol]'s work. But it's gathered together for the simple reason that we all worked with the images and objects around us.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

NASA is doing nothing but development. They're not doing research in manned spaceflight at all and I see no reason for them to do that because we already know that it will work and we already know exactly how it will work.

Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough.

Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.

Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

Nature's tears are reason's merriment.

Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that he shall find no enjoyment until he has become incapable of vivid pleasure.

nd the reason is is if you put a backdoor in, hackers can presumably get a hold of that backdoor as well and break it open. So you make systems less secure for everyone if you do that.

Necessity moderates more troubles than reason.

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.

Neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and the politics of expediency and power.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

Never prod at a woman unless you must. She will kill you faster than a man and for less reason, even if she weeps over it after.

Never call a stomach a tummy without good reason.

Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn't mad at God. I just knew that there was a reason that I didn't know about why it happened.

Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.

Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.

Never take no personally. Sometimes people tell you no for a reason that has nothing to do with you. You must keep going.

Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness?

Never let your heart take precedence over reason, otherwise you will have problems.

Never settle. There is no reason to rush.

Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.

Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach.

Nine times out of ten we find reasons for everything going on that aren't paranormal.

Nobody is here without a reason. I always had a different sensibility. I like a huge range of comedy - from broad and farcical, the most sensitive, the most understated - but I always wanted my comedy to be more embracing of the species rather than debasing of it.

No doubt about it, Lawrence Decker was the reason God had invented nakedness.

Nile perch is a fish that was introduced into Lake Victoria. The reason that fish was introduced into Lake Victoria was because it was decided that the people living near the lake needed more proteins than they were getting.

No gangster is ever happy when he's at peace. The main reason he's in the business is to eliminate his enemies.

No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.

No longer can we be satisfied with a life where the heart has its reasons which reason cannot know. Our hearts must know the world of reason, and reason must be guided by an informed heart.

No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.