Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything I am being sympathetic, not satiric for the very best reasons.

The best reason to go to the movies is to be with other people. Eating the popcorn, being with other people you don't know.

The best reason for listening to and learning from the poor is that this is one way God is revealed to us.

The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint.

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.

The biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

The biggest reason people don't succeed is because they don't expose themselves to existing information.

The biggest reason that positive endings don't happen is because employees are trained on policies and rules rather than principles.

The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.

(The) chain of command has failed over the years, obviously, for a lot of reasons.

The center of salvation is the Cross of Jesus, and the reason it is so easy to obtain salvation is because it cost God so much.

The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.

The chief characteristics of the [liberal] attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather than faith.

The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.

The choicest gift of God to man, the gift of reason; and having endeavoured to force upon himself the belief of a system against which reason revolts, he ungratefully calls it human reason; as if man could give reason to himself.

The Christian who walks with the Lord and keeps constant communion with Him will see many reason for rejoicing and thanksgiving all day long.

The clash of religion. We've had to coexist for hundreds of years in Bulgaria, in the Balkans, and we still don't get along. It's a reason for so much tragedy.

The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite, and for this reason no constitutional shackles can wisely be imposed on the power to which the care of it is committed.

The closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomes his true reason for being.

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.

The comic strip is what I looked at, and it's another reason I did it. The comic strip, where animals would comment on human behaviour, interested me.

The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.

The concern around probable questions, which in a sense have been hidden, will grow around the world and the matter is critical, the reason we are doing all this is so we can respond correctly to what is reported to be a major catastrophe on the African continent.

The conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason.

The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.

The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.

The critics. When they're right, they're right for the wrong reasons. And they're usually wrong.

The crocodile must want to be a crocodile for reasons of the crocodile

The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

The dog has behaved himself quite well all day, and the show is doing fantastically well in the ratings... I have no reason to be sad!

The difficulty in today's world is our technology and science has outrun our theological advances. The reason for that is in technology and science, we have had the courage to ask the single question that theology has been afraid to ask: "Is it possible that there's something I don't know about this, the knowing of which would change everything?

The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.

The dreamed outcome of launching a psychic attack can make you feel small and petty. I think for that reason I'm going to refrain from launching any.

The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.

The dream of reason produces monsters

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough into antiquity.

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

The exercise of reason is not available only to specialists; it is accessible to everyone.

The eye strays not while under the guidance of reason.

The fact that a trick fooled you is not enough reason to perform it.

The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.

The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

The first time I ever saw platform shoes in the '70s, I knew they'd been revived from the '40s, and I felt sickened. And for whatever reason, they keep getting revived. They've come back four times. I wish we could let them die. They want to die. They were horrible then, they're horrible now.

The first time formal customer research is done, executives frequently are surprised by the sizeable percentage of customers who defect for service-related reasons.