Reason Quotes - Page 70

If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!

In his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for you. There was such a thing as manners after all.

We have reason to be afraid. This is a terrible place.

For some reason I seem to be a massive hit with middle-aged women. I seriously don't know what it is.

It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.

That's another reason I did Daredevil: I didn't get killed off in it.

I'd like to work more as a director. It's distracting being an actor, because - there's a lot of reasons. You find out you're going to work about six months before you start shooting, and then there's prep and there's post afterward, and there's stuff to do, and then suddenly you've gone a year without directing. There's a part of me that has to not be tempted by that in order to commit more to the directing. Honestly, the big reason for me to act is to observe other directors and learn from them. That seems to be the biggest draw.

I had a hundred and seventeen days in which to convince Will Traynor that he had a reason to live.

There's a reason the Third World came in third.

We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally easier than life.

American youth is looking for a reason to die.

And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.

Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible though very unlikely that our whole world is controlled by elves. But supernatural explanations like these are simply never needed; we manage to understand the natural world just fine using reason and materialism.

It is embarrassing to be caught and killed for stupid reasons

Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies.

Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's passage for some reason.

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.

The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.

Childhood is the sleep of reason. [Fr., L'enfance est le sommeil de la raison.]

To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.

We love without reason, and without reason we hate.