Reason Quotes - Page 15

The reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they had dead men preaching to them. O that the Lord may quicken and revive them! How can dead men beget living children?

Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.

I get the reason that you should be willing to negotiate sometimes. But you also ought to be willing to throw a punch.

Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.

Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.

There is a reason why all things are as they are.

...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

The rise of Trump is a repudiation of 30 years of bipartisan treason and failure.

The world is absolutely out of control now and is not going to be saved by any reason or unreason.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything.

There's the new America for you. Bring them in by the millions. Bring in 10 million more from Africa. Bring them in with AIDS. Show how multicultural you are. They can't reason, but bring them in with a machete in their head. Go ahead. Bring them in with machetes in their mind.

The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.

Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.

Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.

Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.

Authority that is not confirmed by true reason seems weak. Whereas true reason does not need to be confirmed by any authority.

Choose life … I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin?

Let our reason, and not our senses, be the rule of our conduct; for reason will teach us to think wisely, to speak prudently, and to behave worthily.

The only reason I'd ever get a sex change operation is to see what it's like to be right all the time.

Always question your fear, Anh. there's almost never a good reason to be scared.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.

As Christians, though there may be reasons to be troubled, there are greater reasons not to be.

Love must be proven by facts and not by reasons.

Even if we can agree that some things are natural and some are not, what follows from this? The answer is: nothing. There is no factual reason to suppose that what is natural is good (or at least better) and what is unnatural is bad (or at least worse).

I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.