Reason Quotes - Page 110

What defenders of the system typically fail to acknowledge is that the reason violent offenders comprise a fairly large percentage of the state prison population is because they typically receive longer sentences than non-violent offenders.

Where can an interrogation lead us which does not follow reason in its horizontal course, but seeks to retrace in time that constant vertically which confronts European culture with what it is not?

Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.

Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.

Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone of its operations.

We can live nuanced, complicated, exciting lives with no reason for limitation.

Don't ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what.

In any relationship that comes to an end, there's never just a baseline reason why. You say, 'Oh, I broke up with my girlfriend.' Someone says, 'Why?' You say, 'Well, you got three hours? And then maybe after I tell you my version, you've got to talk to her.

There always should be something hanging unfinished before a scene ends so that there's a reason for going to the next scene.

There is no reason for a civilian to have an automatic weapon.

What makes an interview 'difficult'? Well, there are many reasons, but the end result is usually the same: The guest just doesn't seem comfortable answering the question.

Clearly the American military has been a force for good for the United States. There's a reason we have a standing military. But there's something to be said for having a much smaller military because then we wouldn't be tempted to get involved in things we shouldn't be getting involved in.

There is a reason we used to build Cathedrals that drew the eye upwards.

Normal is normal – and has been called normal for a reason.

But there is a compelling reason to develop a personal strategy for living. Rejecting issues, which often feels liberating, is actually enslavement. Those who do not produce their own solutions must be using someone else's. As Nietzsche warned 'he who cannot obey himself will be commanded'.

Wherever I live, if there isn't a restaurant I want to go to of a certain type, then I open it. That's all. For selfish reasons.

I would like to think there is a reason and a choice behind everything.

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them.

Even at the worst of times, when nothing goes right, when the prose is clumsy and the ideas feel stale, at least we're doing something that we genuinely love. There's no other reason to work this hard, except that love.

She could not trust herself to hope—but without hope, she realized, she had no reason to go on.

Why were there so many barriers between us, always? Barriers of clothing, of etiquette, of time and age and reason.

Every day we have a special reason to make a good celebration! And that reason is our very existence!

The reason while we are in danger in this universe is this: We need the universe but the universe does not need us!

Since there are thousands of reasons to be happy, let us smile so many thousands times!