Reason Quotes - Page 92

According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.

She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.

There are certain relationships in our lives that implode, and it can feel really inexplicable and terrifying. You don't know why, and sometimes relationships end for reasons that one person keeps from the other person, and it's just totally unclear, and it just goes south and it's heartbreaking.

I like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, "When all else fails, men turn to reason."

I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.

An alibi is a reason with a bad reputation.

The university is in danger of losing its monopoly, and for good reason. The most visible threat are the new online courses, many of them free, with some of the best professors in their respective fields.

There is no reason why the US and the UK cannot have close relations.

Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.

When we decide to take back our own power, we discover that the true solver of problems is intuition, not reason.

You are here for a reason.

I do believe that everything happens for a reason. We're not on Earth by accident. Things don't happen in your life for no reason.

A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.

The only reason to be in business is to be great.

Boredom is not black licorice, Snicket," she said. "There's no reason to share it with me.

Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason.

Ultimately, the reason why love and compassion bring the greatest happiness is simply that our nature cherishes them above all else. The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.

At the end of the day, everybody has to take the right decisions for the right reasons.

She [Marilyn Monroe] was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short.

The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.

All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.

We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other.

If you haven't learned to ride a bike by the time your peer group has, then suddenly it's an embarrassment and you'll avoid opportunities where you're expected to ride a bike. And then it starts shaping your behaviour. Reading is much subtler, but much more destructive if you have not - for whatever reason - learned to read by the time you should.

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die.