Reason Quotes

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung.

Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a waste.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

I've often had people ask me, would you allow a homosexual to be your friend. Yes, I will. And the reason I will is because I know that that person has problems, and if I can minister to those problems, I will.

David Steinberg was the reason the Smothers Brothers got cancelled.

Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

I like funny guys and those, for some reason, tend to be nerdy guys.

We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.

I think the whole reason for my life is in there somewhere.

There's no reason why I should retire.

Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'

The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it's gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so many people are discouraged and have quit work.

There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.

Sometimes I like them artificial and sometimes I like them real. And the reason is because sometimes I like a real close sound. And I like a very specific snare sound and I can't get that in the big room.

I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies.

The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.

The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community.

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.