Reason Quotes

My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That's always been my motivation - to take care of the people who rely on me.

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.

Being a mom's so empowering and incredible. I'm one of those people who believes that life brings things to you at a certain time for a certain reason, and if you just go with it, that's where the best moments come from.

I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes your mind off that.

To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.

If we are wondering why only 19 percent of the American people feel that the Congress is in tune with their priorities, the cuts in Amtrak is one blatant reason why.

The movie wasn't a hit, although it did well in Europe for some reason.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.

Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me, education does you more good. Maybe that's the reason I've been around so long.

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.

This is a group effort. This is group theatre. This is no big star turn. You could do things with it to do that but it would just be out of kilter. This is one reason I like this play. This is a unit.

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

The reason prescription drugs are so important at the state level is because they're eating up the Medicaid budget.