Reason Quotes - Page 103

There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.

It has been said that the reason we establish relationships is to assure ourselves of a witness to our lives.

You learn, of course, when you're working with something good, but you also can learn when you're working with things that are not good. You can see the reasons they're not good. I would sometimes suggest what could be done, but essentially say "It isn't worth the bother." So I learned from that process.

When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.

nd the reason is is if you put a backdoor in, hackers can presumably get a hold of that backdoor as well and break it open. So you make systems less secure for everyone if you do that.

So take the time to think. Discover your real reason for being here and then have the courage to act on it.

As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.

Our forebears are deserving of tribute for one indisputable reason, if for no other: without them we should not be here. Let us recognize that we are not the ultimate triumph but rather we are beads on a string. Let us behave with decency to the beads that were strung before us and hope modestly that the beads that come after us will not hold us of no account simply because we are dead.

The dog has behaved himself quite well all day, and the show is doing fantastically well in the ratings... I have no reason to be sad!

There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. There's a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you can have a relationship. Once you accept you like 75 per cent but 25 per cent you find irritating for this or that reason, you just have to ignore that 25 per cent.

Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.

It is very hard not to see extensive and basic similarities between these (Pagan) religions and the Christian Religion. But somehow Christian scholars have managed not to see it, and this, one must suspect, for dogmatic reasons.

The reason so many promises are not kept is the same as the reason they are made in the first place.

If we have the right to use our reason, we certainly have the right to act in accordance with it, and no god can have the right to punish us for such action

Some of the wealthy collectors have paid lots of money for artwork that I already did, but I didn't do it with the intention of catering to them. I think part of the reason my work is attractive to people like that is because it doesn't cater to them.

Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons was I wanted to explain how things really work, how political power really works.

I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.

In the end the reason for anything is inseparable from the reason for everything.

Congress passed the 1887 General Allotment Act. And that act ended up dispossessing tribes of 90 million acres. That history of dispossession was also accompanied by a history of forced assimilation whether it was in residential schools, whether it was in dismantling traditional tribal governance structures. And the justifications for that is that you're not as good as us. Our systems are better. Our modes of education. Our ways of owning land, our ways of working have been continually cited to Indians as the reason for these government policies.

With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.

When Daddy goes to work, there's a mouth to feed, a point to life and a reason to do things

Don't find a reason to smile. Find a way.

The difficulty in today's world is our technology and science has outrun our theological advances. The reason for that is in technology and science, we have had the courage to ask the single question that theology has been afraid to ask: "Is it possible that there's something I don't know about this, the knowing of which would change everything?"

Everything happens for a reason, Sadie, even bad things.

There's a reason they say,"Pride goeth before a fall.