Reason Quotes - Page 52

When there is hope in the future, there is power in the present, and since hope is the foundational quality of all change, there is considerable reason to be excited.

One reason people never attempt new things is their fear of failure.

You must have a reason to be in the places to which you go, and you must do only things that you really care about.

For some reason I've always had an irrational love for New York. There's no reason that you would necessarily like it on paper. It's very expensive.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

If discrimination based on race is constitutionally permissible when those who hold the reins can come up with "compelling" reasons to justify it, then constitutional guarantees acquire an accordion-like quality.

The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented

It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.

See it as it is, not worse than it is just so you have a reason not to try.

The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI.

Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason.

Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity.

In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration.

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football. (in Thief of Time)

History is rarely made by reasonable men.

When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.

The very reason for nature's existence is the education of the soul; it has no other meaning.

To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition.

There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.

I want to stretch myself. Another reason why I'm so fortunate is that this is a drama and I've been brought up in comedy.

I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly