Reason Quotes - Page 82

We're attracted to bad guys, and we like to follow bad guys, because they do things that we want to do but just don't do, for whatever reasons.

Peggy Noonan is not as good a columnist as my colleague Kathleen Parker, in my opinion, but they share something related to their Pulitzers. Kathleen won in in 2010. They won it for a similar reason. They broke from their crowd, and sprinted away. They delivered the politically unexpected take, at some peril to their readership.

Women are part of the reason for washing and keeping clean, aren't they?

I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.

An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.

We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason--because it clashes with our own.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.

We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.

I'm surprised I'm still living. I ain't really make the best of decisions in my life, but for some reason, it missed me. It's weird - that's what I always think, like, "Maybe something's going to happen."

But also movies seem to like me more than television, so I don't get hired a lot for TV for whatever reason.

Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.

There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason.

In the matter of faith, we have the added weight of hope to that of reason in the convictions which we sustain relating to a future state.

Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, mans highest faculty.

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

Each day, you get an ounce more confidence. When we're playing like we are, there's no reason not to.

The best reason for listening to and learning from the poor is that this is one way God is revealed to us.

What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign.

The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing.

Happiness based on reasons is actually another form of misery.

My screenplays are very detailed. The reason they're detailed... you have to think on your feet. You have to be ready to change because there are no such things as ideal conditions.

There is a reason there is no such thing as a folk writer. But to be a writer you have learn what it takes to captivate a reader in order to make them turn the page. And in order to learn that, you have to read.

Imbalance of reason and emotion may explain the tenacity of religion in societies: world religions are optimized to tap into the emotional networks, and great arguments of reason amount to little against such magnetic pull.

I think that things happen for a reason.