Reason Quotes - Page 23

Because I am a horrible flincher, contact lenses are not an option. I'm always envious of contact-wearers. There are endless reasons to take off one's glasses during the day and, as I have grown older, what I don't see has become increasingly pronounced.

I am willing to spend whatever it takes … My moral standard compels me to speak out on this issue because I am the largest company by far in the industry and I am willing to speak out. I don’t see any compelling reason for the government to allow people to gamble on the Internet and nobody has ever explained except for the two companies whose special interest is going to be served if there is gaming on the Internet, Caesars and MGM.

All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.

Let's just shoot in black and white. Don't explain why. Have no reason for it. Just do it because it's interesting.

Being right is one more good reason for not succeeding

I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.

We all must recognize that homeland security funds should be allocated by threat and no other reason.

Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.

I don't ask my wife to face Michael Holding, so there's no reason why I should be changing nappies.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

The basis of almost every argument or conclusion I can make is the axiom that the short story can be anything the author decides it shall be;...In that infinite flexibility, indeed lies the reason why the short story has never been adequately defined.

I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment.

If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy.

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.

Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.

If it has to be that wars and battles are begun for many reasons and quarrels, then they should also be avoided and shunned by better and more valid reasons.

You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.