Reason Quotes - Page 94

What reason has one for existing other than to be involved with what is actually being created in your particular time?

Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.

Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.

The main reason we didn't break up is because we weren't really a college band. We were just, two dudes who were messing around with music. We never played off-campus except for once or twice. We never had any ambitions to make it as a band after college, or anything like that. So that probably worked in our favor. We never took anything seriously, we still don't!

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.

To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.

Aubrey's voice when he answered was soft. "I'm one of the reasons they wouldn't dare.

When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks.

I came back [to Beijing ] because that's the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back.

"You only live once" is also an equally compelling reason not to do something

I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.

Even to get Yahya Khan to reason was an impossible task - it only made you lose your temper.

I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect.

A poison can hardly be called safe if for some reason specific to me it's ineffective against, say, my body. But the power of story on the human mind is such that anecdote is often more persuasive than numbers. That's why news stories often concretize the impact of a change in government policy by following the story of one person.

For whatever reason I was always obsessed with the potential of humanity's physicality. Especially since we grew up with such a non-physical philosophy.

That is one more reason why I write in English only right now. I prefer writing in the language I hear around me for the people by whom I am surrounded.

On stage, that for me is a space I really love to be in. It's a time to really get drawn into the music and the moment with my friends. It's the best reminder of the reason why we're doing what we're doing.

You're filled with so much life. Is there any reason why all of us are not full of life?

Why do I write about China? That is a very good question. I think there are questions about China that I haven't been able to answer. The reason I write is that there are questions to which I want to find answers - or I want to find questions beyond those questions.

The reason why we love America so much is America is the only place you can actually come in and wave your flag.

Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.

Atlee is a very modest man. And with reason.

It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space.