Reason Quotes

The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.

You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.

If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.

Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all.

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

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.

We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.

Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.

Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.

If I'm not moved by what happens at the end of this play, then I've completely failed, and so has the play, and so has our production. And if that's the case then there really isn't any reason to want to do it.

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

Nobody does anything for one reason.

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.

Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.

I'm not prejudiced about what type of movies I'm in, what form they take or whether they're studio or independent. I just want to make films that are going to be good. The main reason is not to make money, although at some points it's really difficult when you're broke.

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.