Reason Quotes - Page 54

If we knew exactly what to expect throughout the Solar System, we would have no reason to explore it.

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.

He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.

Reason speaks and feeling bites

You reason like the king, who, being sent across the frontier, called out, 'What will become of my poor subjects without me?'

Reason can be used only when looking critically back.

Stacking shelves in a supermarket. The reason I didn't like it is because I'm very clumsy. We had a floor polisher you'd push up and down the aisles, and klutz me would always knock the bottles over in the drinks aisle. Unsurprisingly I got fired.

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.

The fact is, I see no compelling reason why we should not unilaterally get rid of our nuclear weapons. To maintain them is costly and adds nothing to our security. I can think of no circumstances under which it would be wise for the United States to use nuclear weapons, even in retaliation for their prior use against us. What, for example, would our targets be? It is impossible to conceive of a target that could be hit without large-scale destruction of many innocent people?

I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.

I have no interest in movies that take you somewhere dark and leave you there, for no reason.

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn't know how to ask.

The reason why I always wanted to make an American film was because of the Western genre. It is something that I would very much like to make in the future, because it's very uniquely American, and I can't make a Western film in Korean.

I don't know nothing about communism. But I know the Albanians loved me. Same reason as anyone else loves me. Because I made them laugh.

At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.

Everything that happens is determined by God.

Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity.

The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.

The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.

It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes.