Reason Quotes

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.

Maybe that's some of the reason I feel so good today. Maybe I finally realised that it's just a game.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

The victory of Hamas is not only based on the corruption of the Palestinian Authority. Hamas has a vision and a program, and this is the reason why the Palestinian people chose Hamas. However, there is no doubt that the corruption helped Hamas's victory.

What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that.

We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words.

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

Fashion takes its inspiration from society and everyday life, which is the same for everyone, and this is perhaps the reason why certain elements recur.

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.

There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books.

I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.