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Reason Quotes - Page 42

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.

Tom O'Connor, Ahmed González-Núñez (1987). “Living With AIDS: Reaching Out”, Corwin Pub

I really believe things happen for a reason, and sometimes that reason isn't revealed until much much, much, much later.

"Tim Gunn on interviewing Dolly Parton and going to Woodstock in penny loafers". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 14, 2016.

It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace.

Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.133, Vintage

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves.

Samuel Johnson (1968). “Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.251, Yale University Press

Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love

Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.190, W. W. Norton & Company

It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.

Richard Hofstadter (2011). “The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it”, p.231, Vintage

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, themagic Laby'rinth's single clue.

Sir Richard Francis Burton (1880). “The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî: A Lay of the Higher Law”

Short people got no reason to live.

Song: Short People, Album: Little Criminals

We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.

Peter Kreeft, Ronald K. Tacelli (2009). “Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics”, p.9, InterVarsity Press

There's a reason why actors are always dying to work with the Coens. They just set the stage for you to do their best work.

"Oscar Isaac Talks INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS, Preparing for the Role, Working with the Coen Brothers and T-Bone Burnett, and Balancing Acting and Music". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 5, 2013.

Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.

Orson Scott Card (2010). “Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.133, Macmillan

There is only one reason to do anything: as a statement to the universe of Who You Are.

Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.48, Penguin

There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.

Mohsin Hamid (2000). “Moth Smoke”, p.193, Penguin Books India