Reason Quotes

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

I don't think you need a record deal to write songs. You don't need any other reason than you want to do it. It's a far cry from why some people do music today. They make it to order, which is pretty horrible.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.

A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.

Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.

The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.

My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.

Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be.

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

That's another reason I did Daredevil: I didn't get killed off in it.

What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.

The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.

It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Please remember we all come from the same one and we will all return to that one, so there is no reason for fighting.

I realize that things happen for a reason.

To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.

My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.

For some reason, Hollywood seems to have painted me as a gorgeous vixen at times or the sweet girl.

Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.

And the reason I really appreciated this is because after the picture came out, I was invited by the American Psychiatric Association to give a lecture. I couldn't believe it!

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

Brand-new research suggests that the faster you take weight off, the longer you keep it off. Now that's a reason for dieters everywhere to rejoice.