Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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

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

I used to fear living a life untouched by God, but now, for some reason I've gone back to being afraid of cement mixers.

I've always been a fan of vinyl. There's something about the ritual of it. Something about it holds its gravity, for some reason. Sometimes you'll put on music and the music fades into the background. But when you take that vinyl out and put it down, the music becomes the conversation as opposed to being the soundtrack to it.

I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.

I've always been connected to football, but for some reason, there's never been a connection.

I've always been heavily engaged with my fans on the internet from day one. That connection's one of the reasons why I've been able to enjoy such longevity in my career.

I've always enjoyed the record shops...they gave me a reason to leave my house.

I've always believed that we were, each of us, put here for a reason, that there is a plan, somehow a divine plan for all of us. I know now that whatever days are left to me belong to him.

I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.

I've always been terribly uninterested in criticism. And one of the reasons, I just thought recently, is that you know there are various schools of criticism that will compete, and one will supercede the other.

I've always loved [Elsa Dorfman] work. I've loved her and her work is so much an expression of her. One of the reasons to make the film is to expose Elsa, hopefully, to a wider audience.

I've always loved stop motion animation and I particularly wanted to do stop motion with puppets that have fur, for whatever reason that is.

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.